Lawrence school board on Monday and Tuesday approved budget cuts of $4.6 million as the district seeks to close its $5 million budget gap before next school year. The plan was a compromise to not close any elementary schools next year and also keep the sixth-grade instrumental music program that board originally cut Monday. Board members will likely need to consider dipping into their contingency reserve to cover the rest.

Here is the plan:

• Raise the student-teacher ratio by one student across the district: $1.1 million.

• Close the East Heights Early Childhood Center and move the program into Kennedy School and likely redraw boundaries with New York School: $350,000.

• Have one less elementary principal in the district: $92,896.

• Restructure school nurses and cut one full-time nurse: $43,520.

• Tap into an instructional materials fund: $200,000

The remaining $2.8 million in cuts were made Monday. They include:

Administration

• District administration, including salary reductions: $557,295.

• Reduce positions, days or hours for clerical aides: $161,407.

• Reduce the number of high school assistant principals: $102,597.

• Require Lawrence Schools Foundation to cover its administrative assistant position: $34,047.

• A 3 percent cut in the district’s contracted services, such as legal services: $60,000.

Instructional Support

• Eliminates teaching positions for elementary enrichment classes: $122,580.

• For learning coaches, no additional contract days and eliminate all positions not federally funded: $495,717.

• A 25 percent reduction to the professional development budget: $75,000.

Libraries and Media

• Eliminate 11 work days for library media specialists: $12,167.

• Not filling junior high librarian vacancy and restructuring secondary librarians: $107,270.

• Cut two full-time positions for library media assistants at junior high schools: $46,760.

• New York and Wakarusa Valley schools share one library media specialist: $53,635.

Student support

• Reducing additional contract days and hours for guidance counselors: $35,604.

• Eliminate high school prevention specialist: $36,445.

Special Education

• Delay replacing a vehicle, reducing hours and contract days and not filling a vacancy the East Heights Early Childhood Center: $177,877.

Virtual School

• Stop absorbing indirect administrative costs to assist Lawrence Virtual School: $223,970.

Activities and Fine Arts

• Eliminate the supplemental assignment for Generation Y at each junior high school: $15,393.

• Athletics, mostly by efficiencies if ninth-grade sports are moved to the high schools: $150,000.

• Secondary school fine arts stipends for vocal and instrumental ensembles: $9,695.

• Reduction in rental expense for the All City Choir Concert at the Lied Center and Eliminate Choral Connections: $3,394.

• Reduction in additional contract days high school teachers can supervise career and technical education clubs competitions: $15,000.

• Eliminate KU Theatre for Young People and Lawrence Arts Center for kindergarten: $11,291.

Facilities and operations

• Five percent cut in salary reductions: $40,000.

• No substitute custodians until third day of absences: $40,000.

• Deposit lease funds from the cell phone tower at Free State High School into a new account: $25,163.

Food Services

• Increase meal prices at least $0.12 per meal: $246,932