District mulls cutting teachers as budget deficit looms
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 of Directors during a May 8 meeting, 43 full-time district employees will face termination. Teachers...
Fulfilling the state’s paramount duty
By Matthew Hipolito, Copy Editor
November 2, 2017
In 2009, the personnel director for the Chicacum School District walked into a courtroom of the King County Superior Court to be cross-examined in a case about education funding. Afterwards, Stephanie McCleary and her children, nerves frayed from hours of questions from state lawyers, went to look at ...
ESD “Finance 101” meeting in MTHS theater, 2017-2018 school year funds discussed
By Stephi Smith, Executive Editor
April 12, 2017
Superintendent Kris McDuffy and Director of Business and Operations Stewart Mhyre hosted a community forum, a "Finance 101" budget input session, in the MTHS theater earlier beginning at 4 p.m. Mhyre began with a quick PowerPoint presentation outlining what school programs ESD schools are to fund along with w...