Post by pavel on Mar 4, 2016 5:05:39 GMT -6
School leaders who had been bracing for a 3 percent state funding cut in March got a gut-punch on Thursday when state officials handed them an additional 4 percent reduction.
“I’ve been sick to my stomach,” Wagoner Superintendent Randy Harris said. “We are going to start spit-balling ideas, but I don’t know if anybody has an absolute, great answer at this point. We’ve got to shift the monkey off the schools’ back and put it back on the Legislature’s back.”
Although state education officials won’t notify schools of their cuts in dollars and cents until next week, Tulsa Public Schools officials say they will lose at least another $2 million — on top of January’s $2.1 million state funding cut.
First-year Superintendent Deborah Gist said she was “deeply disappointed” by Thursday’s news.
Read more: www.tulsaworld.com/news/education/area-schools-slashing-school-days-expenses-to-balance-budget-amid/article_18f12141-aa7e-5f6a-a8cf-de8f42c9e104.html
“I’ve been sick to my stomach,” Wagoner Superintendent Randy Harris said. “We are going to start spit-balling ideas, but I don’t know if anybody has an absolute, great answer at this point. We’ve got to shift the monkey off the schools’ back and put it back on the Legislature’s back.”
Although state education officials won’t notify schools of their cuts in dollars and cents until next week, Tulsa Public Schools officials say they will lose at least another $2 million — on top of January’s $2.1 million state funding cut.
First-year Superintendent Deborah Gist said she was “deeply disappointed” by Thursday’s news.
Read more: www.tulsaworld.com/news/education/area-schools-slashing-school-days-expenses-to-balance-budget-amid/article_18f12141-aa7e-5f6a-a8cf-de8f42c9e104.html