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Mock-trial students warn budget cuts could curtail competitions; board debates equity of extracurricular funding
Summary
Students and advisers told the board that proposed reductions to extracurricular budgets — described as an approx. $8,000 cut removing food and hotel registrations — would limit travel and competitive opportunities; administrators said the district will continue to pay registration and transportation and that adviser fees remain funded.
Bronson (introduced to the board as Bronson Carius) and other mock-trial participants described the program as cocurricular and academically significant, asking the board to preserve access to competitions that have produced repeated district titles. “This program…has done so much for the students and for myself,” Bronson said, asking the board to consider stopping planned reductions.
Board and administration responses provided procedural…
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