Coast schools could lose close to $4 million with Trump’s proposed cuts
“Belinda Dammen is one of thousands of educators across the country who will be faced with a very tough question if President Donald Trump’s proposed education cuts are put into action: Who can we afford to lose? As the Pascagoula-Gautier School District’s assistant superintendent of elementary education, she oversees 12 elementary schools and their teachers. Her district would be greatly affected by Trump’s proposal to cut an entire program from the U.S. Department of Education’s budget. It would lose close to a half-million dollars per year. ‘We’ll be forced to have to get rid of teachers. No question,’ Dammen said bluntly. ‘And so will other districts across the state.” Trump’s proposed 2018 budget calls for $9 billion, or 13.5 percent, in cuts to the Department of Education.’”