Discovery High students react to district’s budget cuts

Camas School District leaders sounded the alarm in 2022, and tried to warn the community that the district’s lower enrollment rates, combined with less money from the state, would force budget cuts in 2023-24, but the news still came as a shock for those most affected by the district’s $6 million cuts.

“I knew the budget situation was serious, but I was surprised by the impact on our campus,” Aaron Smith, the principal of Camas’ project-based learning campus, which includes Odyssey Middle School and Discovery High School, told The Post-Record this week. “I was not anticipating the impact on the principalship here.”