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Eugene School Board approves budget with staff cuts, taps reserves to avoid deeper reductions By Lucas Hellberg City News Reporter
On May 21, the Eugene School Board voted four to two to approve the district’s 2025-2026 budget, moving forward with a proposal to reduce 38.25 full-time positions. The district’s nearly $560 million adopted budget for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year includes roughly $15.86 million in reductions. The 2025-2026 fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30, 2026. Earlier this month, district officials proposed that the board cut 65.80 full-time positions as part of what would have been roughly $20.78 million in budget cuts. After community and school board feedback, some positions, including seven licensed full-time positions at the elementary school level, three licensed full-time positions at the middle school level, 3.5 full-time positions at the high school level and 92 hours of educational assistant time in 46 first-grade classes, were restored and added to the now adopted budget. The approved staffing reductions will impact schools. While district officials say that 92% of the staffing reductions next fiscal year will occur “outside of” schools, they say that 8% will occur “inside schools.”
The district’s budget woes
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The school district’s budget woes come amid lower revenue forecasts for state education funding for the state’s upcoming 2025-2027 fiscal year,
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