 A school district did a little math and now the employees and students are paying the penalty. As Northwest News Radio's Taylor Van Sise explains. Last school year, the Moses Lake School District was budgeted for 1,074 employees with an expected cost of $152 million. But because of an accounting error in which some of that money was counted twice and a failed levy, the district has a $20 million budget deficit for the 2024-25 school year.