Your Turn Staff Editorial District’s monetary cuts impact educational environment

“I’m most concerned about programs that I want to join next year shutting down.”

Luna Gago Pinto, 9

“Budget cuts would be a big problem for the students because this can affect how they feel and make them feel like the program they’re into isn’t important.”

Juan Pompa, 10

“It’s a shame that some extra nice things that were able to be chosen are going away, but I also understand the school has to stay afloat somehow.”

Jackson Avila, 12

“I think they’re needed, but it doesn’t really affect me, so they don’t mean much in my point of view.”

Anastasia Everett, 11

“I don’t know why the school is deciding to cut certain things. Why is the school taking money from these kinds of classes and putting them into programs that are already extremely funded?”

Allison Donaldson, 10

School districts all across the country are struggling amidst the shortage of teachers, lowered attendance, and an increasingly fickle economy. The U.S. education system has always been underfunded, and that, in has come up with a potential plan to close down elementary schools in order to further remedy the deficit in budget, coupled with much contested boundary shifts to readress the growing amount of students in elementary, middle, and high schools. The dissolution of Dessau Elementary School is the primary prospect, and will lead, most

At the end of the day, struggling districts can only do so much budgetary restructuring, and program cuts to aid financial instability – the core of the problem remains in how treat education. Public in the U.S. has never priority within the legislature. It’s a joke that teachers get paid enough, but in educational budgets, and poor teacher salaries based on those deficits, that the joke

PfISD is just one of the struggling districts whose budget remains in a perpetual and seemingly indefinite deficit. Be it because of the growing population or through complicated state recapture programs, it is the district’s job to do what is necessary to remain fiscally stable. While program cuts and elementary school shut downs may be a temporary solution, Pflugerville is growing rapidly, and without a means to provide more funding to the district through legislative reform, it remains that education will eventually outgrow the budget

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