Faced with declining enrollment and a $104.4 million deficit, Seattle Public Schools administrators will roll out a fiscal stabilization plan Wednesday that could pave the way for school closures and consolidations.
But a newly formed parent group, All Together for Seattle Schools, is demanding the board pause any decision about school closures until after the legislative session this spring, with the hope that the state will increase the district’s funding.
“It’s just way too early for the district to decide on any major budget cuts,” said one of the group’s leaders, Alex Wakeman Rouse. “The state has extra funding, we need to advocate to the state to amply fund public education, we need to know how much revenue the district is actually working with before we commit to any kind of plan that consolidates schools.”
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