CSD begins budget cut notifications

District leaders meeting this week with staff impacted by $6M cuts

By Kelly Moyer

March 30, 2023 12:17 pm

Schools

Skyridge Middle School teacher Michael Sanchez, vice president of the Camas Education Association union representing Camas School District educators, speaks to Camas School Board members about the district's plan to cut $6 million from its 2023-24 budget, during a school board meeting held Monday, March 27, 2023, at the school district's administration offices. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

A Camas student addresses Camas School District Superintendent John Anzalone (far right) and members of the Camas School Board (from left to right) Bamini Pathmanathan, Tracey Malone, Connie Hennessey, Erika Cox and Board President Corey McEnry about the importance of maintaining the district's two project-based learning schools during a Board meeting on Monday, March 27, 2023.

Camas School District administrators this week began reaching out to staff members who will likely be impacted by the district’s looming budget cuts.

“We are targeting a $6 million reduction, which will help us stabilize over the next few years,” CSD Superintendent John Anzalone said during the Camas School Board’s meeting on Monday, March 27. “We hope that, by making some reductions, we’ll be in a much better place over the next two to three years and in perpetuity.”

$1.56 million (26% of the total budget cuts) to come from the district’s high schools;
$1.16 million (19% of the cuts) to come from the district’s middle schools;
$1 million (17% of the cuts) come from the district’s elementary schools; and
$510,000 in cuts that were still undetermined.

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