Outlook for Foss Looking More Promising

At tonight's Tacoma School Board study session, a majority of members seemed to indicate opposition to the idea of closing Foss High School.  They asked Superintendent Jarvis to come back with other options, most likely to include an additional 1 million in administrative cuts, as well as cuts to professional development programs and class size increases.

Tonight's meeting was just a study session and no votes were cast.  

No one voiced strong opposition to the idea of closing and consolidating elementary schools with low and declining enrollments.  

All of the budget-related documents discussed at tonight's meeting are available online, including a very useful chart of school buildings and cost per student.

The rest of the documents are available here:
http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/Pages/District-Budget-Outlook.aspx

I live-tweeted tonight's meeting, you can read more by checking out hash tag #sbtacoma.