[drt1]

This smacks more of payback for a defeated bond vote to me. The tactic is to eliminate the most prominent services and in effect punish the voters for their arrogance. Of course, the significant overheads and non-line education expenditures will remain untouched.

IMO Some of these bureaucrats will stop at nothing to maintain the size nd power of their fiefdoms.

[SoDak]

You are correct, sir. That's exactly what this is.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"This smacks more of payback for a defeated bond vote to me"

Absolutely. It's a passive-aggressive "fiscal gun to the head" strategy. Hope the local voters put these extortionists out on the street.

Ronald Reagan, please come back and FIRE them like you fired the air traffic controllers....

[SolidSupplySide]

This smacks more of payback for a defeated bond vote to me.

It smacks of the district giving more autonomy to parents and students to me. They simply got rid of the gym requirement. If kids still want to take gym, they still can. If the kids and parents think another elective is more valuable, they may now choose the elective of greater value.

[planekT]

...This smacks more of payback for a defeated bond vote to me.,,

If you're wrong about that, I'll eat my hat.

One time our district made changes to the bus schedules to inflict pain upon us, even though, the money was in place for the schedules to run that year as planned.