District mulls cutting teachers as budget deficit looms
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
May 14, 2019
The Edmonds School District, facing a $17.7 million budget deficit in the 2019-2020 school year, announced that staffing cuts must be made to balance the budget. Under the plan adopted by the ESD Board of Directors during a May 8 meeting, 43 full-time district employees will face termination. Teachers...
Community Transit Service Change: What You Need to Know
February 2, 2012
Starting February 20, Community Transit will be cutting 20 percent of its bus service by adjusting all local routes and reducing frequency of buses. These service changes will likely impact all MTHS students who ride Community Transit. Here are some major route adjustments around MTHS: Route 112: ...
WHACK! Education loses big at the budget ax hits hard in Olympia
By admin
April 29, 2011
New plans are coming in from all different angles on how to deal with the problems communities face with funding schools and public education. With students already feeling new pressures of having to pay for printing, why would we want to stress more students with additional teacher pay cuts, possible...
Lynnwood faces rough road
By Terrah Short
November 6, 2010
The renovation of the Lynnwood Recreation Center has been underway for some time now, but do residents really know all the things affected by the money spent? The Recreation Center plans began in July 2007. There were 15 community meetings, and there has been a high amount of community support. The...
Here we go again… a word from Mr. Schwab
May 13, 2010
For the past couple of years at around this same time of the school year, we have had the difficult challenge of creating a school program that operates on less funding than we had the year before. This year is no different. Again, we are faced with some significant challenges in funding that will have...
$100K slashed from building budget
By Megan Resler
September 9, 2009
Due to the financial downwards spiral Washington has recently taken, the Edmonds School District was forced to cut $11.5 million from its overall budget over the summer. In order to keep cuts from affecting students directly, each school has had to decrease their annual expenditures by 66 percent- from ...