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RSU 22 principals outline Article 1 budget: staffing shifts, pre-K expands to five days; insurance set at 10%
Summary
Principals from RSU 22 schools reviewed Article 1 (regular instruction) during a budget meeting and described mostly flat school-level budgets with targeted staffing changes, a districtwide move to five-day pre-K at Smith School, and an insurance rate finalized at 10 percent that will be applied across budget lines going forward.
Superintendent Randall opened the RSU 22 budget review by saying the meeting would cover Articles 1 and 2, with Article 1 representing regular instruction and Article 2 special education.
Dawn Moore, principal of Smith School in Winterport, said the school’s building budget is “pretty flat funded” but requested an added teacher to accommodate class shifts and confirmed Smith’s pre-K will move from four days to five days a week. Moore also noted the one-day-per-week pre-K program previously cost an additional $4,500 under contract arrangements and described the change to five days as an equity correction between the district’s two towns.
Principals from other schools described few large changes in their building budgets. Matt Linden, principal at McGraw…
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