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Students and staff urge board to protect KC program and student supports amid cuts
Summary
Students, teachers and community members told the board that proposed cuts — including elimination of a KC senior class and reductions to SEL paras and counselors — would harm student safety, credit pathways and distinctive hands‑on programs; the board said program changes may be tweaked if funding is restored.
Multiple students, program instructors and employees asked the Battle Ground board to reconsider proposed cuts that they said would disproportionately harm small programs and student supports.
Seventh‑grader Ry Dilley told trustees the district’s proposed reduction in force would remove “approximately 137 staff positions” and warned that cuts to assistant principals, campus security, counselors, prevention intervention specialists and social‑emotional learning staff could harm student safety and the day‑to‑day supports students rely on.
Vanessa Tolan, an SEL paraprofessional at Tukes Valley Middle School, described…
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