Dear Colleagues:

The School Board, at its budget work session last evening, made preliminary decisions that eliminated the $3.89 million deficit in next year’s funding request. While some of these actions are subject to change, the Board will formally adopt a budget for the 2014-15 school year at its April 24th meeting.

The two actions that will have the greatest impact were to reduce the employee compensation increase for next year from two to one percent and to implement a class size increase of .2 students for all grade levels. Continue reading →