Whittier : Additional $90,000 Slashed From $35-Million Budget
The Whittier Union High School District will cut $50,000 in funding to after-school programs at its five high schools to help balance the district’s $35-million budget for the 1992-93 school year, the school board has decided.
Another $20,000 in supplies, such as paper and pencils, will be cut districtwide, and a student-worker program will be eliminated, saving an additional $20,000.
The board voted 4 to 0 for the $90,000 in trims, bringing the total cuts this year to $880,000. Trustee John Rios was absent.
Each of the district’s five high schools will lose $10,000, a 10% reduction, for after-school athletics and activities including band, drama and cheerleading.
Each high school also will lose the $4,000 it received to hire students to perform clerical and janitorial jobs.
The district cut $790,000 in March, resulting in the loss of 16 employees.
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