Everything in Lee schools on the chopping block

Instead of $17 million in budget cuts, school district now looking at $30 million less to work with

By MATT CLARK (Contact)
Originally published 5:55 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Updated 7:53 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Forget about high school football, marching bands, student government, art class and all the other Lee County School District programs that aren’t bolted down by Florida statutes.

That’s what School Board Member Steven Teuber fears will be sliced over the next two years if citizens do not write or call in concerns to their legislators, who are now expected to chip away $30 million from the district’s budget in the next year alone. District officials have said the following year’s budget will be even worse.

“I don’t care if you write us 15 gazillion e-mails, it’s not going to change,â€