Shoreline Unified School District is engaged in difficult conversations about how to trim its $18 million budget as inflation and salary increases drive up costs and an infusion of pandemic-related revenue runs out.
Over the strenuous objections of teachers, the school board has raised the possibility of cutting teachers aides, several of whom play an important role as translators at schools with large Spanish-speaking populations. Aides also played a key support role during the pandemic,…