For the past several years, local school districts have faced increasingly difficult financial decisions.
The Lake Oswego School District made $10 million in budget cuts before the 2025-26 school year and the West Linn-Wilsonville School District made $15 million in cuts.
Additionally, West Linn-Wilsonville faced even slimmer margins and declining enrollment, and announced an additional $10 million in needed cuts last fall. This led the school board to vote to close both Bolton and Stafford primary schools…