Is this what we want for our children?
Wichita
▪ Drawing from contingency reserves
▪ Eliminating positions through attrition
▪ 10 percent reduction to non-personnel budgets
▪ Exploring mill levy increase and/or special assessment tax for new Southeast High School
Andover
▪ Increasing fees (enrollment, pay-to-play, transportation, marching band uniforms)
▪ Eliminated elementary summer reading program
▪ Reduced substitute teacher pay and the number of days substitutes are used for district business
▪ Cut custodial position and district office administrative support position
Arkansas City
▪ Reduced some positions by attrition
▪ Left non-critical vacancies unfilled
▪ Reduced travel
▪ Used revenue from sale of property to offset some cuts
Augusta
▪ Froze building budgets (beginning in February)
▪ Cut three teacher positions
▪ Will delay hiring additional teachers needed at high school
Burrton
▪ Reduced hours worked by custodians
▪ Froze professional development and most purchases
Caldwell
▪ Delayed purchases
▪ Reviewing staffing
Cheney
▪ Froze supply purchases
▪ Froze field trips and professional development that could be changed
Clearwater
▪ Eliminating one administrative position by attrition
▪ Eliminating one part-time teaching position by attrition
▪ Reduced spending overall at building level
Circle
▪ Limited spending to essential classroom expenditures
▪ Cut curriculum work days
▪ Cut field trips
▪ Substitute teachers allowed only to cover teacher absence or personal leave
Conway Springs
▪ Cut back on a few purchases
▪ Anticipated and planned for possible mid-year cut in funding
▪ Will not fill some positions as people leave
Derby
▪ Drawing from contingency reserves
▪ No cuts to date
Douglass
▪ Cut two teaching positions and one middle school principal position
▪ Reduced two bus routes (creating longer routes for remaining buses)
▪ Increased enrollment and textbook fees
▪ Froze budget for supplies and equipment
Goddard
▪ Not filling 12 open teaching positions
▪ Deferring maintenance projects
▪ Increased enrollment fees
Haysville
▪ Freezing salaries for two years
▪ Cut spending on discretionary items (field trips, supplies, staff development)
▪ Reducing or deferring building maintenance
Hesston
▪ Only essential spending for rest of school year
▪ Cutting one teaching position and perhaps another for next year
▪ Cutting technology budget by $50,000
Maize
▪ Increased enrollment and athletics fees
▪ Reducing number of counselors, para-educators and clerical staff
▪ Cutting teaching positions through attrition
▪ Reducing technology services, nursing services, curriculum and software purchases
▪ Deferring maintenance
Moundridge
▪ Reducing administrative position and part-time teaching position; eliminating paraprofessional position
▪ Cutting classroom budgets by 20 percent
▪ Freezing uniform and library book purchases
▪ Will begin charging families for transportation within 2.5 miles of school
▪ Reduced professional development
Newton
▪ Reviewing all vacant positions to determine whether to fill them
▪ Cut hours and overtime for classified staff (custodians, etc.)
▪ Cut professional development
Oxford
▪ Closed district office and moved it to high school office suite, cutting one clerical position
▪ Reduced one at-risk tutor
Renwick
▪ Increased local option budget
▪ Reduced number of librarians
▪ Eliminated elementary-level reading specialist
▪ Reduced professional development
Rose Hill
▪ Drawing from contingency funds
▪ No cuts this year
Sedgwick
▪ Drawing from contingency reserves
▪ May replace outgoing K-12 media specialist with para-educator
▪ May not replace assistant coach positions
Valley Center
▪ Cut building budgets by 4 percent
▪ Eliminated four para-professionals assigned to at-risk students
▪ Eliminated summer maintenance and technology positions
▪ Charging for after-hours facility use
▪ Limiting photocopies
Winfield
▪ Reduced school calendar by three days
▪ Implemented hiring freeze
▪ Postponed purchasing language arts textbooks and resources for grades 7-12
▪ Postponed capital expenditures on facilities, including roof repairs.
▪ Closing facility for next school year
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