The Hawkeye

District mulls cutting teachers as budget deficit looms

Limits on property tax funds threaten 43 district employees with layoffs

By Nolan DeGarlais, Editor-in-Chief • 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...

Community Transit Service Change: What You Need to Know

By AnhViet Nguyen • 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...

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...

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...

Here we go again… a word from Mr. Schwab

By Principal 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...

$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...