Missouri’s public schools may be forced to freeze salaries, expand classes, cut extracurricular activities or seek local tax increases to cope with a funding shortfall, education advocates warned Thursday.
K-12 schools — though spared from cuts in their basic state aid — still might have to scale back because of Gov. Jay Nixon’s plan to provide barely one-sixth of the funding increase needed to meet the state’s financing formula, Missouri School Boards’ Association Spokesman Brent Ghan said.
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