OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A day after Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson announced the latest round of budget cuts, including $36 million for this school year, KCTV5 has dug into the numbers to see what it means for area students.

"We're trying to find every avenue to keep this impact away from the classroom," said Gene Johnson, superintendent of the Shawnee Mission schools.

Shawnee Mission will not get $7.2 million from the state and Johnson said they've been looking for places to cut, but there have been no firm decisions on where to trim.

"For us to reduce teachers would be difficult to do," he said. "It would have a negative impact on classrooms, so I don't anticipate that's going to occur."

"You're concerned," said Shawnee Mission parent Tom Kokjer. "Until we know what they're going to do, we'll have to address that at that time and the choices we have."

The Blue Valley district is feeling the budget pinch as well with a cut of $4.75 million. The superintendent told KCTV5 that they will be going line by line through the budget to find non-contractual items that could be cut. They are also looking at a possible hiring freeze.

In Kansas City, Kan., the district learned that it will not be getting $6 million, but the cut didn't come as a surprise. Officials there have raised taxes, cut staff and increased class sizes.

"I think for this year, assuming we don't have more cuts, we'll keep the impact off the kids and take it as a system and as the adults. We won't be able to do that if we have more cuts this year."