Fayette County board approves 2025–26 budget, organizational chart; orders staff reductions and position list

Fayette County Board of Education members approved the district—s 2025–26 budget and organizational chart and voted to reduce licensed and nonlicensed positions as part of a package of actions to close a multi-million dollar shortfall. The board also directed the director of schools to compile and present a list of positions that conform to the approved budget. The actions were taken April 29 during a special-called Finance/Transportation Committee meeting and a subsequent voting session at the Fayette County Criminal Justice Center in Somerville.

Board members said the district has been working to reduce a previously reported multi-million-dollar deficit. Board discussion included figures presented to trustees that at various points described an initial roughly $5 million shortfall that had been reduced to about $2.5 million; elsewhere in the meeting staff noted the…