The solution for the DeKalb County schools massive budget mess is in.

Going up: property taxes, class sizes, teacher furlough days and health insurance premiums for school employees.

Going down: 477 school district jobs, the number of teacher’s aides and the budget for the Fernbank Science Center.

In the end, few seem real thrilled.

“I know that as soon as teachers in DeKalb can find a job in another school system, they are leaving,” David Schutten, President of the DeKalb Association of Educators, told News/Talk WSB’s Jon Lewis.

The DeKalb School board approved a budget Thursday night that was reduced by $77.5 million.

The board voted to raise property taxes by about $80 on a $200,000 home. The 1 mil tax increase will raise $14.8 million. The increase is now pushing within a mill of the voter-approved cap of 25.

"I keep telling my husband, ‘Maybe we need to sell and get out of here,'" Kimberly Evans, a parent and former DeKalb teacher, told the AJC.

Teachers pick up two more furlough days on top of the four that they already have been taking.  All the furlough days would be teacher workdays and would not affect the attendance calendar.

“I think it’s going to negatively affect morale,” said Lithoina Middle School teacher Nicole Duff. “I think it’s going to negatively affect people moving into DeKalb and it’s going to impact the children at the end of the day.”

Class sizes will also increase by two students, including special education classes. More than 200 paraprofessionals and teacher’s aids will be let go. 10 school resource officers are also being wiped out.

"It could have been much worse," Schutten said of the overall cuts to the classroom, citing an original proposal to fire more than 300 people.

As for the Fernbank Science Center, its budget is being cut $1.9 million – about 40 percent. But that’s not as bad as first proposed.  Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson had recommended a $3.2 million cut.

“It will still be operating as a fully-functional science center for students,” said school district spokesman Walter Woods. “But its budget will be cut. Both in positions and programs.”

Voting for the cuts and the tax increase were: Eugene Walker, Jesse "Jay" Cunningham, Sarah Copelin-Wood, Tom Bowen and Donna Edler.

But there was a lot of bickering between school board members before they voted on the budget.

"They act more like middle school students trading insults than adults trying to pass a serious budget," said Schutten.

Board members spent an hour attack each other, while the near-capacity audience groaned. Some blamed the money problems on the administration that preceded Atkinson's.

Wednesday Womack pitched the idea of cutting an additional 10 school days from the calendar. That idea was later withdrawn because of bad information.

Bus transportation to magnet and theme schools will stay, despite a previous plan to eliminate them.

The new general fund budget for fiscal year 2013 is $760 million, but officials plan to keep $8 million in reserve.