"Should sports and band be kept and teachers laid off?
Class size increased?" The bottom line is this: Payroll is the biggest expense. If you cut programs, you do that so that you can reduce teacher payroll. So to answer your question, if you keep sports and band, then you keep teachers. If you cut band and sports, you cut teachers. You cannot do one without the other. If the referendum does not pass, the school board will have to find other creative ways to cut the budget or increase revenue.