Budget Cuts at my son's school

At EK Powe's sitebased meeting tonight, we learned that if the proposed budget cuts go through, the student to teacher ratio at EK Powe will increase from 17 to 1 to 20 to 1. This translates to a loss of 3 teachers. Our wonderful principal put a bright face on it. She said that this was the "worst case scenario". She was unsure of her Title 1 funding, and she casually mentioned some programs she was concerned about losing such as supplemental reading programs, ESL teachers, and reading curriculum specialists. She/we couldn't make much of things right now, because she really didn't seem to know herself how things were going to change. She said she wouldn't know the actual cuts until the summer when both the state and local budgets are adopted. Our last sitebased meeting is May 10th.

Why do I get the feeling that the County Commissioners and State Legislators like things this way? The summer budgetary time frame suits them just fine. They can wait for all of the parents and teachers to go on summer vacation while until the schools are officially gutted.