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DiscoSalescan’ttakecredit ordebitcardscont.

ThetruthbehindwhyDiscoSalesdoesnot acceptcreditordebitcards.

By:HayleeKohler&AveryPerry

without card payments.

Even if DiscoSales wanted to take cards, they would not be able to due to school and state policy.Their solution to the problem is gift cards.

The soft launch for the DiscoSales gift cards has already begun.

“There is a $16 dollar gift card, it's good for eight drinks of your choosing from DiscoSales, each punch is one drink,”Wood said.“People have to prepay online and pick up a card in the office.This is going to help with the online ordering with larger products as well.”

“You can bring $16 dollars to Mrs. McGuffin if you order the card online, she’ll give you the card and you bring it to us and we will punch it for each drink you buy,” said Harding.

DiscoSales projects that this will increase the club’s sales and hopefully solve the card controversy.The gift card only works on drinks for now, but they are considering doing it for food when they expand the menu. DHS students can order the gift card through ParentSquare and pick it up in the office or bring cash for Mrs. McGuffin.

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ThefuturesofCHS,CCAandDHSlieinthe handsofWashingtonlegislature

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Luckily for the students of these schools, they will remain a top priority. However, unfortunately this predicament may result in staff members being laid off in

According to explanations drawn by Post Alley Seattle and Anzalone’s verbiage in the town hall meeting, regionalization—as defined by the context it’s being used in—is the appointment of school funding from state legislation that is scaled by property values in a designated area.

Anzalone remarked that before experiencing changes brought about by the McCleary decision, which introduced a new prototypical school funding model, Camas received a 12% increase in funding due to the town’s expensive cost of living—which can be attributed to its nature as a high-income area.After regionalization decline went into effect, Camas began losing around 1% of to them and every other school district by Washington’s legislature during the COVID-19 pandemic. to be a consequence of the McCleary decision in 2012—as a contributor to the school’s impending $6 million dollar budget cut before any other factor. nation at large—not just Camas. CSD is also running out of COVID-19 relief funding, which was supplied

For Camas, the COVID-19 relief fund totaled $11 million dollars.

According to an article from The Columbian in Sept. 2022, the Camas School District’s budget for the 2022-2023 school year was $140.8 million dollars. On the official website of the Camas School District, the page titled Long-Term Debt only contains a title and the website's standard theme.