The Budget Crisis--It's Not Just Us

The Washington State School Director's Association does a great job with their daily E-Clippings of collecting all the education news from papers around the state. Many of the articles in recent weeks have been highlighting the budgetary problems that districts have been having; taken in the aggregate, it's a pretty bleak picture. Below are links to stories that have appeared in E-Clippings in the past few weeks, from all around the state, on this year's budget woes:

Friday, May 9th:

• The Kitsap Sun: South Kitsap School District Joins Those With Budget Woes
  
• The Bellingham Herald: 3 school boards (Blaine, Ferndale, Meridian) OK staff, program cuts

Thursday, May 8th:

• The Tacoma News-Tribune: Teacher raises put pressure on Bethel district budget
  
• The Aberdeen Daily World: 15.5 fewer teachers in Aberdeen next year

Wednesday, May 7th:

• The Vancouver Columbian: Faced with a projected $2.4 million deficit next year, Vancouver Public Schools may eliminate 26 staff positions and make other cost-saving changes next year.
  
• The Kitsap Sun: Tough Choices Ahead for Bremerton Schools
  
• The Olympian: Olympia School Cuts Draw a Crowd
  
• Peninsula Daily News: Port Angeles Schools Cut Budget, Keep Full Day Kindergarten

Tuesday, May 6th:

• The Everett Herald: Cuts Loom for Schools Across Snohomish County
  
• The Olympian: Olympia parents look to compromise on budget cuts

Monday, May 5th:

• The Spokane Spokesman-Review: Central Valley School Board still mulling budget cuts
  
• The Kitsap Sun: Unexpected expenses force Bremerton Schools to cut back
  
• The Bellingham Herald: 'Perfect storm' batters state, county school budgets
  
• The Aberdeen Daily World: Hoquiam cuts won't be easy

Friday, May 2nd:

• The Peninsual Daily News:Port Angeles school officials tell why they'd forgo pay raises

Thursday, May 1st:

• The Spokane Spokesman-Review: Mead schools face cash shortfall
  
• The Spokane Spokesman-Review: School look to trim budgets
  
• The Walla Walla Union Bulletin: Dayton Schools to cut seven positions

Tuesday, April 29th:

• Tacoma News Tribune: White River Schools forced to make cuts
  
• The Olympian: North Thurston OKs budget cuts

Monday, April 28th:

• The Peninsula Daily News: Port Angeles school leaders offer up pay raises to aid district

Friday, April 25th:

• The Kitsap Sun: As NK schools face $2.8 million shortfall, will pool be closed?
  
• The Walla Walla Union Bulletin: Dayton schools face $300,000 shortfall

Wednesday, April 23rd:

• The Bellingham Herald: Blaine schools face budget cuts

Monday, April 21st:

• The Abderdeen Daily World: Are Harbor schools headed for a “Waterloo”?
  
• The Ellensburg Daily Record: School districts grapple with finances

Olympia, Bremerton, Vancouver, Aberdeen, Bethel, Blaine, Ferndale, Meridian, South Kitsap, Port Angeles, Edmonds, Central Valley, Mead, Dayton, White River, Sumner, Puyallup, North Thurston, Cle Elum, Ellensburg, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap, Medical Lake. North, east, west, south, all in the same house of budgetary horrors. And those are only the named districts; there are many, many more out there in the same boat.

At least we're all in it together. Yay?