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School Committee backs Article 28 to fund literacy pilot, lowers FY26 operating request to $70,415,718
Summary
The Winchester Public Schools School Committee voted April 18 to support Select Board Article 28 — a $455,000 article to fund an early literacy pilot — and to reduce its operating budget request to $70,415,718 (a 6.46% increase). The committee also voted to ask the moderator to move Article 28 ahead of Article 22 at Town Meeting.
The Winchester Public Schools School Committee voted unanimously April 18 to take favorable action on Article 28, a one-time funding article intended to pay for an early literacy pilot, and approved reducing its FY26 operating budget request to $70,415,718, a 6.46% year-over-year increase.
Dr. Hackett, a district official who presented the FY26 update, described the preliminary level-services budget and a series of adjustments and priorities. He said personnel costs were driving much of the increase and that the district had added positions after updated enrollment and needs reviews: a one FTE multilingual support position, an additional Mandarin section at the high…
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