OTTAWA — The Ottawa school board made more than $700,000 in cuts Thursday night because of the state’s cuts to public education. Cuts include making the Eisenhower principal’s position half-time, reorganizing the bilingual program, cut extended-day contracts, eliminating a high school language arts teacher, dropping freshman success classes, and restructuring the curriculum at the middle school to eliminate four middle school teaching positions. Superintendent Dean Katt said one of the newest legislative funding plans would raise local taxes and force more cuts but he says he hopes that one will disappear.
Monday, March 29, 1 p.m.
