Another night of unhappy parents in one Southern Colorado school district. That's because Pueblo's District 70 is taking a proactive approach when it comes to expected budget cuts, and that could mean closing down a school.

Avondale is the latest rural school rumored to be closing, and Tuesday night at D-70's school board meeting, parents weren't about to let the rumors turn into a reality. Nearly a dozen concerned citizens urged the district not to close the school and they offered ideas on how to make up an estimated 4.9 to 10 percent cut in funding.

The school board says, they're taking everything into account but the process will drag on at least another month before any decisions are made.

District 70 School Board President Lynette Pantello says, "These folks are right. The school is the hub of the community. The one thing that people need to understand is, we don't want to change the effects of community, and we want to do everything we can to keep from closing schools."

People in the district are starting to question why the cuts are hitting education so deeply, as well as the level of community's commitment. One parent writes in a letter to the board,
"If we can raise millions of dollars in aide for a natural disaster in another country, why can we not raise the money for the disaster that is occurring in America's school systems?"

The bill to finalize how much school districts will be forced to cut is not expected to be finalized until sometime in April. District 70 plans to begin trimming their budget at a board meeting in March.