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School superintendent outlines expansion, enrollment growth and $5.8 million of cuts to balance FY26 budget
Summary
Lynn Public Schools Superintendent Alvarez presented the FY26 school budget, describing large Chapter 70 funding, major program expansions (new seats and facilities), rising costs in healthcare, pensions and special education, and approximately $5.8 million in reductions including clinician and administrator positions to produce a balanced plan.
Superintendent Naomi Alvarez told the city council’s budget committee that Lynn Public Schools will receive $317,126,307 in Chapter 70 funds for FY26 and outlined major investments and cost pressures in the coming year.
“We increased 1,000 students over the course of a year,” Alvarez said, explaining why the district is holding unassigned teacher units (five teacher units and funding) in the superintendent’s office budget to accommodate enrollment spikes.
Alvarez described planned expansions she said are central to the budget: 176 new seats at Frederick Douglass Academy and a new City Arts & Sciences Academy at Casa Lin…
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