Staff Cuts, Slight Tax Increase Included In Preliminary School Board Budget

March 20, 2014 Board of Education Taxes

3-19-14 meeting5 — The Board of Education was told at its March 19 meeting that staff cuts would be necessary to fill a budget gap if substitute teachers were not outsourced.

Teacher and paraprofessional layoffs and a slight property tax increase are in the offing under a $142 million preliminary 2014-2015 school year operating budget approved March 19 by the Board of Education.

Those layoffs could be mitigated by outsourcing the district’s substitute teachers, the board was told.

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