The Battle Ground Public Schools Board of Directors approved its 2025-26 budget Monday, Aug. 25, finalizing $14 million in cuts to staffing and programs after voters rejected the district’s replacement levy earlier this year.
The cuts eliminate 116 full-time positions across the district — 56 certificated and 60 classified staff — while also removing or scaling back several programs.
The 2025-26 reductions also include eliminating all middle school sports and coaching positions, ending free school supplies for primary students, cutting the Kindergarten Jump Start program, removing all instructional coaches and teacher librarians, reducing paid crossing guards, mental health therapists and nursing positions, consolidating bus routes, and suspending new curriculum purchases. The district will reduce, but not fully eliminate, its ASPIRE magnet program by cutting the third-grade cohort…