MARQUETTE -- The Marquette Area Public School Board met Monday night to discuss budget plans for the upcoming fiscal year. The school board laid out where the budget deficit was in March at $2.4 million and how it has since decreased to $729,000.
The budget plan includes cutting about three teachers, and about seventeen could be moved from full time to part time or have schedule changes. The board also plans on dipping into their equity fund or savings account to help eventually reduce the deficit to zero.
"Well, it's a tough process, especially when we talk about people. You know those are actual teachers that we're moving around, that we're asking them to do something very different," said MAPS Superintendent Deborah Veight. "Change is hard, yet our goal is still to keep that program for our students, and that's what we're doing, where we're putting our money."
The MAPS board will meet next for a public hearing on June 25 when they will vote on the proposed budget plan.
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