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Superintendent releases FY2025-26 recommended budget focusing on continuity, teacher pay and bus-driver support
Summary
Superintendent Lewis presented a recommended Durham Public Schools budget for 2025–26 outlining continuation costs, staffing counts, proposed supplements (including a $200-per-month bus-driver supplement), a local funding ask of about $16 million, and targeted investments for special education and teacher compensation.
Superintendent Dr. Lewis and Chief Finance Officer Jeremy Teeter presented the superintendent’s recommended 2025–26 budget to the Durham Public Schools Board of Education on March 27, emphasizing continuity of operations, targeted compensation changes and several one‑time investments.
Teeter said the district plans to budget on the basis of roughly 5,167 positions and that current enrollment stands at 31,188 students. The recommended plan includes an assumption of a modest state pay increase (Teeter noted an expectation of about 3 percent), a pension contribution of about 25.25 percent and a health‑insurance increase the budget books estimate at roughly $600 per employee. Teeter also said utilities…
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