According to interim superintendent Carol Lewis, MLSD suffered $20 million loss of revenue due to accounting errors and a double levy failure last school year.
MOSES LAKE, Wash. — As the Moses Lake School District (MLSD) continues to deal with the impact of both a budget shortfall and a bus driver shortage, the district hosted the first of four community meetings to try to build back trust.
The meeting took place Tuesday night at Sage Point Elementary in Moses Lake.
“Trust in our community at large has been broken,” said interim district superintendent Carol Lewis. Now MLSD hopes to get some trust back by doing what they do best – teach. Lewis led the presentation for a small audience of over a dozen people.
“The public came to learn a little bit about how school districts are financed and then learn what went wrong in Moses Lake School District with …