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School committee debates FY26 non‑override cuts and asks staff for clearer family‑facing messaging
Summary
Committee members reviewed a revised FY26 non‑override budget cut list, discussed consequences for interventionists, librarians, extracurriculars and technology, and asked staff to produce clearer, humanized messaging and materials for upcoming community presentations.
Milton School Committee members reviewed an updated FY26 non‑override budget scenario and asked staff to sharpen community messaging that explains how proposed cuts would affect students, families and district services.
Committee members said the district’s non‑override budget effectively represents a level‑funded spending plan that would maintain FY25 dollar levels while reducing services to close a structural deficit. Peter, a staff member, summarized the accounting: the non‑override package reflects level funding rather than level service and would remove roughly $6.4 million in services compared with the original level‑service FY26 budget request.
The nut graf: Committee members asked staff to present clearer, human examples of impact — for example, how losing an interventionist affects the number of students served…
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