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Andra Bryan Stefanoni: Educators worry about future of funding
But the district also has teachers moving horizontally and vertically on the salary schedule, which means the district will be faced with how to fund those moves as well as equivalent raises for classified staff. Additionally, after current construction at three of the district’s elementary schools to provide room for all-day kindergarten next year, the district will need to put additional kindergarten teachers on the staff roster.
A feather in the district’s cap is recent savings on energy costs. In September, the district completed the third year of an energy conservation contract in which it saved about $700,000.
“The hard part is, we just use that money we saved for something else, so it’s not like we’re coming in with any extra,” Dexter said. “If we didn’t have that, there would be programs we wouldn’t have.”
Area superintendents agree that knowing how to stretch dollars is nothing new — it’s something that goes with the territory.
“If we can not lose money, we’ll find ways to tighten up,” Dexter said. “The scary part is every year not knowing. That makes long-term planning hard.”
Menghini said she hopes that school funding next fiscal year at the very least can continue at its current level.
“We may have to postpone bringing in increased dollars we were looking at putting in,” she said. “The best-case scenario, most likely, is maybe maintaining where we’re at currently and just postponing added funding.”
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