This isn’t official yet, but it’s not good news even in preliminary form. The Richland School District sent out this notice today about its expectations for next year’s budget:

The state legislature approved a 2010-11 budget earlier this week. A preliminary review of the budget indicates that the Richland School District will have a $1.7 million funding reduction for the 2010-11 school year. District administrators have begun developing strategies to address the reductions. Those strategies will be presented at the April 27 school board meeting.

Looks like there’s gonna need to be a lot of creativity in place to make up a huge loss like that while trying to minimize impact on student learning. It may be a bit irresponsible to speculate, but I’m guessing we’ll see cuts in after-school, extra-curricular activities as well as transportation, sports-related travel, and so forth. Bound to be an impact on staffing, too.

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