Superintendent Bryce Knudson says more red ink is in the cards for the Bon Homme School District in southeast South Dakota.

Knudson says the district will need $400,000 in additional funding for the 2010-2011 school year. Plus, he says, expenses keep rising.

Knudson says several cost-cutting measures have been mentioned, including closing district elementary schools in Springfield and Tabor. But the superintendent says closing them would be a disservice to the parents and students.

Knudson worries about losing some of the students to open enrollment. He says having all of them attend school at Tyndall would raise busing costs and that the teachers still would be needed.

Opt-outs from the property tax freeze were defeated twice in special elections in 2002.

The district has about 570 students at Tyndall, Springfield and Tabor.