From the article:
Parents Fox 8 News spoke with are not blaming the school district, but rather the voters who did not approve levies that would have given the school district money.
Obviously the voters decided the school district didn't need the money. If this is a typical district, they are way heavy in administrators. Maybe a 30% cut there would help?
I suspect these "hardships" are the district's way of fighting back against the stingy taxpayers.