Budget Cuts and Possible Layoffs for Port Angeles Schools
The Port Angeles School Board is holding a meeting tonight, 7 p.m., at Dry Creek Elementary School, 25 Rife Road. They'll be discussing budget cuts and the possibility of teacher layoffs.
The District is expecting to have $1.6 million less in revenue next year than it did this year.
The District is expecting to have $1.6 million less in revenue next year than it did this year.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:11 AM
32 Comments:
Big surprise, right?
More layoffs, less money being spent in the local economy, less income for local businesses, they can afford less, and round and round we go.
I heard that the enrollment in the Port Angeles schools has dropped. Is this true?
Lets cut education for our children, real smart for our future. But then those republicans out there could care less, just don't tax my rich friends.
You said it, Trump!
As long as our Governor keeps spending money like a drunken sailor we will continue to see cuts in education.
"As long as our Governor keeps spending money like a drunken sailor we will continue to see cuts in education."
How much did Bush spend in Iraq every week? A Billion? For how many years? And we got exactly WHAT for all that debt?
And you think the Wa Gov is the problem? As the Feds have less to spend, they cut funds to States, who cut the programs on the local level.
"And we got exactly WHAT for all that debt?"
Well for one thing - we haven't been forcibly converted to Islam by Saddam and his pal Osama Bin Laden!
Bet that those doing the budget cuts won't be cutting their own wages any.
They're so special, don't you know.
I heard that the enrollment in the Port Angeles schools has dropped. Is this true?
I hope so....
Hey, stop whining, the monkeys had money to spend on easter, the capitalists loved it.
"And we got exactly WHAT for all that debt?"
Well for one thing - we haven't been forcibly converted to Islam by Saddam and his pal Osama Bin Laden!
.............
You are not serious, are you? I don't remember Saddam Hussein, or any of the Iraqi military ever setting foot on the US soil. If you remember, Bush made up all kinds of never proven /false reasons for invading Iraq, spending those billions, and putting this country into debt.
So, now here we are, cutting funding for our children's education. Great. I feel so much safer now that our economy is in collapse.
Anonymous said...
Well for one thing - we haven't been forcibly converted to Islam by Saddam and his pal Osama Bin Laden!
5:16 PM, April 25, 2011
The fraud, it never ends.
The stupid, it still burns.
BTW, both of those bogeymen are creations of your CIA.
Obama spent more in 18 months then Bush spent in Iraq in 7 years. What did we get for that? GM? Unions?
At least Bush displaced the Taliban, removed and brought to justice Saddam the civilian killer, and brought democracy to Irag.
"Obama spent more in 18 months then Bush spent in Iraq in 7 years. What did we get for that?"
Obama inherited the debt from Bush. Remember that "Maverick" Republican candidate John McCain suspending his campaign to orchestrate the bail out?
""Sep 24, 2008 ... John McCain said he would suspend his campaign and return to Washington until a deal can be reached in Congress on the financial bailout".
This was how many months BEFORE Obama was even elected?
Obama spent all that money to pay the bills Bush administration created. Bush had the "party", and Obama has to pay the bills. Which means, WE pay the bills.
Teachers across the board in washington are getting salary cuts.
Maybe they should rethink who they vote for...
Trust me, these cuts are not federal. Look at the color of the state, and the corresponding education rank.
Capitalist said...
"Trust me, these cuts are not federal."
Directly, or indirectly?
I think that view is only looking at the immediate "chain of command", the State of Washington. You're right, it is Washington State that is cutting funding to local governmental agencies, resulting in the cuts to the Port Angeles school district.
But it is silly to think that the massive budget shortfalls in the Federal government are not being passed down to, or are having drastic impacts to State governments and their budgets.
In how many ways does the Federal government provide funding to each state, including Washington? As it cuts it's budget, it sends less to each state, including Washington.
You don't really think Washington State's budget is totally independent of the Federal government, do you?
Trust you? Well.. maybe, but I think you were a bit quick in your response to this.
Anon @ 10:46
Yeah, you are somewhat correct. But why is washington so terrible in the public education rating? You completely ignored the bulk of my point.
But considering the fact that Christine Gregoire proposed these district cuts.
She would rather cut education than wellfare, oh well, atleast these kids will have hope when they drop out right?
Capitalist said:
Yeah, you are somewhat correct. But why is washington so terrible in the public education rating? You completely ignored the bulk of my point.
Well Capitalist, i'd like to introduce myself.... I'm Capitalist too. Nice to meet you
At the grocery store the clerk asked me if I wanted to donate to people with disabilities, “No – Not unless it’s to spay and neuter them.” She was still laughing when I left. Really, our liberal bleeding heart government gives them enough of our tax dollars for them to sit on their asses. No reason why they should have better lives and medical care than the rest of us while the educational system is hurting.
@ other Cap,
you should be glad there are more than one of you in this god awful town.
On another topic: The severe storms that have been thrashing states east of here.
I saw someone on the PDN site making a "clever" comment on the story about our near record cold and wet spring, saying sarcastically something about "climate change". Obviously, the person thinks concerns about climate change are unfounded.
I've heard these type of comments before, and just shake my head. Anyone with a little understanding about thermal dynamics knows hot air rises, and when it does, it draws in cooler air underneath it. As the hot air is cooled, it falls.
Weather patterns are largely created by, and governed by thermal differences. Sun heating surfaces creates movement (rising upwards, and "sucking in" cooler air horizontally across the earths' surfaces.)
We have cold air being sucked down from Alaska, and headed east where it clashes violently with the hot, moist air from the Gulf. That creates the storms the eastern states often see in the spring.
The more heat energy in the air, the more moisture it can carry, the more violent the storms. This is pretty well understood.
The global average of the earth's temperatures has been rising, and record values recorded in recent years.
The computer models for "global warming" suggest more frequent, more severe storm events.
Looking around the globe, at Australia's record flooding last year, flooding in South America, and the record tornadoes in the US, they seem to have validity.
@ Capitalists - there are more of us here than you might suspect.
History is against you "capitalists". Karl Marx said that and I still believe it!
History may be against us, but my children and grandchildren will live better lives than 98% of the population
"History may be against us, but my children and grandchildren will live better lives than 98% of the population"
Because you've outsourced 98% of the populations jobs?
Actually, I've been responsible for creating many, many jobs, and I have outsourced none.
"History is against you "capitalists". Karl Marx said that and I still believe it!"
Uh huh. Ask anyone in the former USSR or eastern Europe if they're yearning for a return to the Soviet system, Comrade. I doubt you'll find many people pining away for the "good ol' days" of Brezhnev, Stalin and Lenin.
You're probably an ex poli-sci student who dropped out from Berkeley, dreaming about the time you spent rolling around in the mud at Woodstock, dropping LSD and living off unemployment.
Loser.
"Uh huh. Ask anyone in the former USSR or eastern Europe if they're yearning for a return to the Soviet system, Comrade."
Actually, IF you knew anything other than the spoon fed rhetoric you soak up from watching that impartial source of information, Fox "News", you would know there ARE many in the former USSR that ARE wishing to get rid of the current regime of corrupt "capitalists". They've lived with both, and are disgusted with the current extreme corruption. Do you want me to cite sources?
Of course, we can see how well the flagship capitalist country is doing these days. All great, and getting better.
Have the Republicans/Conservatives raised the debt ceiling yet?
Nutjob.
"Actually, I've been responsible for creating many, many jobs, and I have outsourced none."
Tell it to the middle class. You know, the thing that will be gone in a generation? The thing that buys most of the useless crap "capitalists" are peddling?
It's ok, people in India and China will buy stuff from American companies, even if Americans can't from American stores. Oops!
"... you would know there ARE many in the former USSR that ARE wishing to get rid of the current regime of corrupt "capitalists"."
Uh huh. And your sources are Pravda, The Daily Worker or National Propaganda Radio?
As always with the Socialist crowd it's blame Capitalism and/or America first.
By your logic, Comrade, the Cambodians must be yearning for a return of the Khmer Rouge?
I think the real nutjob is you!
"As always with the Socialist crowd it's blame Capitalism and/or America first."
As always with you, anyone you disagree with is a Socialist/ hippie/ Kumbaya/ Communist/etc/etc/etc. As predictable as the sun rising. Completely 1950s Joe McCarthy "Red under every Bed" knee jerk rhetoric.
Rather than looking at the problems and failures of capitalism, US policies (like funding Bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, like funding Saddam Hussien in Iraq for years, like funding Quaddafi in Libya for years, like currently funding Pakistan with billions), you rant on with meaningless, tired old rhetoric and insults.
What ever cranks your engine.
Meanwhile, in capitalist Port Angeles, more stores close and sit empty for years, while capitalist Kaj Ahlburg lobbies against private property rights, as seen with his current position concerning the Rayonier property.
Nothing that concerns you, though. You have tired old phrases to parrot.
I still think the nutjob is you, Comrade. So there.
"I still think the nutjob is you, Comrade. So there."
You prove my point. Thank you. As predictable as the sun rising.
As the persistent representative of the ultra right, 1950s Joe McCarthy style "Red under every bed" conservatives on this blog, it would be more interesting if you commented on issues, instead of just always name calling.
How do you figure it is okay that the "uber-capitalist" Kaj Ahlburg lobby State Government to intervene to prevent Rayonier from doing what it wants with it's own property? I'm assuming you're also a strident "property rights" advocate, as well.
THAT would be interesting.
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