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Durham board adopts 2025–26 recommended budget after detailed Q&A with finance staff
Summary
The Durham Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved the superintendent's recommended 2025'26 budget after lengthy questions and answers with Chief Finance Officer Erik Teeter and Superintendent Mike Lewis about staffing formulas, state funding assumptions and next steps with the county.
Durham Public Schools Board of Education on Thursday approved the superintendent's recommended budget for fiscal year 2025'26, requesting $222,071,005.27 from the county for current expense and $8 million for capital outlay.
The board voted unanimously after a presentation and extended questioning of Chief Finance Officer Erik Teeter, who said his team had spent months cleaning and correcting the district's budget book, reconciling previously missed positions and creating a new baseline for planning. "We literally open the books," Teeter told the board, describing work to identify unbudgeted positions and understaffing that produced a nearly $34 million shortfall in prior materials.
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