Stagnant funding is functionally reduced funding when costs for districts continue to rise. We also would like to stress that if school budgets are cut due to the legislature’s response to the Gannon equity decision, we will place blame directly on the legislature, not on the courts.

“At the district’s board meeting Monday, Superintendent Jim Hinson said the district already expects it will have to cut $4 million from other programs in the school year beginning in July just to keep up with anticipated increases in personnel salaries and its share of benefit costs, barring an influx of new revenue. Any additional revenue cuts required by the Legislature, such as those in response to the court decision, would only compound the problem.

“’The likelihood that we will lose millions of dollars we are currently receiving is pretty high,’ Hinson said. ‘What we’re working on internally right now is a situation where our budget is bleak.’”

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