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Board questions whether new teacher perfect-attendance stipend is producing substitute-cost savings
Summary
Board members asked for a cost–benefit check of a new perfect-attendance stipend after finding the Board of Education's related line item showed roughly $126,000 paid year-to-date and substitute-teacher lines appearing heavily expended.
Torrington’s Board of Finance on Tuesday approved Board of Education budget performance reports but several members pressed the superintendent’s office to demonstrate whether a recently negotiated perfect-attendance stipend is producing the substitute-teacher savings it was intended to achieve.
Members said the new stipend — described in the meeting as $250…
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