Schools Running Out of Cuts
Channel: Minnesota 2020
Date: 29/08/2011

Meeting the challenges presented by the declining state aid, school administrators have to either resort to local levies or cut costs around the classroom.  Richfield Public Schools have gone years without a levy,  mostly by slashing programs and activities that enrich the educational experience for the four thousand students in the district.  
When that didn't go far enough to resolve the deficit, the district laid off seventeen teachers to balance the books. 
We have to ask ourselves the tough questions about the value of investing in education now to have a strong and capable workforce in the future.