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Mark Anderson, the school district's associate superintendent for support services and Kistler's direct superior, says the district's reduced direct funding to the station is about "getting down to trying to be as lean and mean as we can and continue our core mission:" Anderson notes that the district has had to deal with a nearly $9 million funding cut from the state in its latest budget and has cut 42 teaching positions. KSPS opted last year not to fill a vacant marketing and promotion outreach position due to budget concerns, he says, and in the months since then has taken a number of other cost-cutting steps, including trimming travel and supply expenditures and reducing the frequency of its Prevue program guide mailing to eight times a year from 12 times.
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Pbs Station Here Feels Cash Pinch
KSPS-TV, the noncommercial educational station here owned and operated by Spokane Public Schools, has laid off employees, curbed programming expenditures, and dipped into reserve funds over the last 12 months to try to counter dwindling financial support. The problem is, its next fiscal year, which begins Sept. 1, looks even bleaker.
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