School Board Finalizes $2 Million In Potential Budget Cuts

Among possible cutbacks are elimination of administrator and assistant and no more air conditioning at elementary schools during summer break.

The Barrington School Board Tuesday wrestled with $2,092,000 impending reductions to achieve a balanced budget for the 2011-2012 school year. The final vote on the cuts will be cast at the March 15 school board meeting, and the public is invited to attend an open forum this coming Tuesday to weigh in on the issue. Among the positions on the chopping block are an associate principal and administrative assistant position at Barrington High School. “It never feels good doing this, but Associate Principal Scott Kasik is moving on to a different district and his administrative assistant is retiring, so this was a less difficult cut to make,” said Dr. Tom Leonard, superintendant. What was challenging about the decision is the fact that the move …

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Bruce Donnelly

1:06 pm on Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Parents and other local voters need to pay attention to efforts in the state legislature to eliminate local school districts through forced consolidation. Imagine what it would be like if our schools were run by a Cook County board or Lake County board, rather than through local officials and administrators. It may sound crazy, but this is a real threat - for 2012. See stories in Patch's Orland …   more ›

A Teenage Perspective

A Student's Take on School Budget Cuts

How the District 220 budget cuts are affecting my education.

Ever since we were children, we were taught to be grateful. Grateful for what we have and others have to live without.  Many of the nation's schools are facing extreme financial problems, and compared to those of Barrington High School, their problems are greater in severity. Yet, many teachers and students, myself included, cannot help but feel disheartened by the effects of the economic issue at hand, the budget cuts. Budget cuts have recently been enacted as the board of education has cut $2.4 million from the 2010/2011 school year budget. Not to mention, $1.5 million was already cut from the budget in the last school year. The primary reason for the budget cuts is that the state owes the Barrington School District around $2.3 million, …

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