School board members on Saturday found wide consensus on closing Abbott Loop Elementary School, increasing the student-to-teacher ratio by one and using roughly $28 million in savings to close next year's budget gap.
Anchorage School Board members Carl Jacobs, Dora Wilson and President Margo Bellamy work on an activity on Dec. 10 aimed at helping people visualize the options for closing the district’s $48 million budget gap.
The district says there’s a number of reasons for that, and it’s now the amount of money the Anchorage School Board needs to focus on when it meets on Monday to decide preliminary budget cuts. There’s a list of proposals, many of them controversial, for the board to consider — from closing schools and eliminating programs to spending down savings and increasing class sizes.
Stock said the district also saved around $2.3 million when the city confirmed it would still pay the bill to have police officers in schools. Plus, it has roughly $9 million in unspent federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds it can use next year. Plus, he said, there’s benefits.
He said the biggest reason for the deficit is that the state has not increased the base-student-allocation in years. That’s basically the amount of money districts receive per student. During a school board work session Saturday morning, district officials facilitated an activity aimed at helping people visualize the options for balancing the budget. Stock led the activity.
The activity was primarily for school board members, but stations were set up around the school board meeting room for members of the public to participate as well.
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