In a recent news article in a local paper, they talk about budget cuts and how those cuts will cause two staff members at Beaver Local to lose their position. With the chance of losing almost $500,000, the two staff positions to be riffed are an executive secretary and an eighth-grade teaching position which were approved by the Board of Education on Monday, March 13. These two staff positions will be eliminated at the end of the current school year.

While the elimination of these positions may not personally affect me, the cuts will surely affect other staff members and other students. Although the school has already eliminated two positions, there will also have to be other cuts throughout the district to come up with the $500,000. Not knowing why the district is losing so much money, the District Treasurer, Stacy Williams, will be attending a meeting in Columbus to voice her displeasure in the loss. The main reason for the cut is believed to be enrollment, at which has gone down significantly over the past five years. This means that either A, graduating classes are getting smaller, B, parents are not enrolling their kids at Beaver Local, or C, students are transferring to other schools.

Further along the line, if enrollment continues to drop, then more money may be lost. If that is to happen, then there can possibly be even more budget cuts made throughout the district. Even if the school was to gain any money in the future, the amount would still be fairly small, most likely along the lines of $18,000.

Due to the school losing nearly $500,000, the district has eliminated two staff positions and may have to make more cuts throughout the district. The main reason the district is losing so much money is believed to be because of enrollment going down which can be affected by multiple factors. Depending on how enrollment goes over the coming years, the school district will either gain money or have to make more sacrifices than those already made.

Resources: http://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2017/03/beaver-local-to-rif-two-positions/
http://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2017/03/bl-opposes-state-budget/