The Alaska Legislature passed a state budget last week without cuts to education, but the Haines Borough school board still approved a stringent 2018 budget Tuesday.
The district will take $200,000 from savings to cover next year’s $4.5 million fund budget. That reduces the balance in the district’s general fund to about $243,000. Last year’s general fund budget was $4.9 million.
Administrators estimate enrollment will be down by six students next year.
The school…