This collaborative allows a smaller district to offer high-level services to special learners.
[citation needed] The Chisago Lakes School Board voted in early 2009 to cut $1.2 million from the 2009-10 budget.
A major cut across the district was specifically in special education paraprofessionals, which may affect classroom instruction.
As a result, parents and high school student volunteers spent the 2009 summer assisting with the repainting and cleaning of facilities across the district.
[1] District superintendent Mike McLoughlin says that more "painful" cuts will need to be made for the 2010-11 school year as well.