State proposes cutting sports funding
Bangor Daily News, April 13, 2007
(excerpt) State funding for school sports and activities such as band and drama clubs is on the chopping block as part of the revised budget proposal outlined last week by the Baldacci administration to help bridge a $74 million three-year shortfall.
Funding for the programs would end in the 2008-09 school year.
"Under the Essential Programs and Services program someone has determined that sports are not essential, mock trial is not essential," Brewer Superintendent Daniel Lee told his school board Monday. "Is there a school in Maine that’s going to eliminate basketball?" he asked. "We’re going to have to pick that [cost] up on the local side."
The proposed cuts in funding for co-curricular and extracurricular activities are designed to save the state $5.4 million over the 2007-09 biennial budget. Co-curricular activities include chess clubs, yearbook, mock trial and other programs. Extracurricular activities are mainly sports.
(excerpt) State funding for school sports and activities such as band and drama clubs is on the chopping block as part of the revised budget proposal outlined last week by the Baldacci administration to help bridge a $74 million three-year shortfall.
Funding for the programs would end in the 2008-09 school year.
"Under the Essential Programs and Services program someone has determined that sports are not essential, mock trial is not essential," Brewer Superintendent Daniel Lee told his school board Monday. "Is there a school in Maine that’s going to eliminate basketball?" he asked. "We’re going to have to pick that [cost] up on the local side."
The proposed cuts in funding for co-curricular and extracurricular activities are designed to save the state $5.4 million over the 2007-09 biennial budget. Co-curricular activities include chess clubs, yearbook, mock trial and other programs. Extracurricular activities are mainly sports.
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