Other than a previously planned rally in support of education, officials from the Peninsula’s three largest school districts say they will wait and see what happens with Gov. Gary Locke’s proposed budget.

Unveiled Tuesday, the state’s biennial financial plan proposes deep cuts in state education funding that include overriding two citizen initiatives to balance the state budget.

“I think it’s something that we as a School Board really need to look at,” said Sequim School Board President Elna Kawal.

“(Locke’s budget proposal) will really affect how we plan our next school year. We’ll just have to wait and see what actually comes out of the Legislature.”

Educators from Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Sequim, Chimacum and other Peninsula districts were already planning to participate in a Jan. 14 rally on the Capitol campus in Olympia.

During that rally, teachers say they will call on lawmakers to keep education funding intact.

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