The Proposed Budgets are a Disaster for Medical Lake

Hi friends,

I was really hoping that I'd have good news for you here after spring break. Sadly, that's not the case.

During the holiday the state House and Senate released their general operating budgets, where they lay out the school funding for the year. The theme in Olympia has been "Cut, cut, cut!", but I don't think anyone expected it to be this drastic.

The House budget would be a hit to the district of about $1.2 million dollars.

The Senate budget--which is much, much worse--would mean a $1.9 million dollar reduction in money coming in from the state.

There's a sub-section of the OSPI website, here, where you can read the numbers for yourself.

Now more than ever it is critical that we communicate with Olympia and tell them to do whatever it takes to protect education funding in Washington schools. I'll be getting some materials out to you this week that I ask you to take a look at--please, make your voice be heard.

Also a reminder about the "How could we save money?" survey that was emailed out to you before spring break. If you have any ideas that we can take forward to the budgeting meetings we need to hear them; you can find the survey at the link below:

Medical Lake Budget Survey

Classified staff, the survey is for you as well--we'll share the responses we get with your PSE leadership!

If you have any questions please call or email. It's going to be a challenging couple of weeks, but please know that your Association is working hard on solutions, and we deeply and sincerely appreciate any suggestions that you have.

With thanks,

--Ryan, for the MLEA Exec Board--