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Slate Valley superintendent tells committees federal grant uncertainty forced contingent contracts and threatens core services
Summary
Slate Valley Superintendent said the district, among the state’s highest‑poverty, depends on about $2.7 million in federal funds that support interventionists, psychologists and other roles; because of federal uncertainty the district added grant‑contingent language to 20 contracts and cut $500,000 from its local budget.
Brooke Perfogle, identified in testimony as superintendent of Slate Valley, told a joint hearing of Vermont’s Senate and House education committees on March 13 that federal funding uncertainty has immediate local consequences: the district received about $2.7 million in federal funds that pay for interventionists, school psychologists and several central‑office positions, and the school board instructed the superintendent to make grant funding a contingency in staff contracts.
"We get about $2,700,000 in federal funds, and those funds fund every academic interventionist that we have. They fund all of our school psychologists," the superintendent said, describing cuts in a recent local budget vote that required the…
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