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Keystone Central board reviews proposed 2025–26 budget, hears growing virtual enrollment and cyber-charter cost concerns
Summary
District finance staff presented a proposed 2025–26 budget with multi-million-dollar shortfalls under a no-tax-increase scenario, discussed possible millage options, reductions in discretionary spending and rising cyber-charter costs; the board also heard a detailed overview of the district’s virtual academy and its fiscal implications.
Keystone Central School District trustees on Thursday reviewed a proposed 2025–26 budget that projects a multi-million-dollar shortfall under several scenarios and heard staff describe a persistent transfer of students to outside online (cyber) schools that is increasing district tuition expenses.
Christy, presenting the budget, said the district could face a $4.5 million shortfall in 2025–26 with no millage increase and described scenarios that would lower the gap with millage increases. “With no increase, we would have a shortfall of $4,500,000 in 25–26,” she said. She walked the board through potential millage-rate scenarios, reserve levels and a five-year projection that includes proposed cuts and staffing assumptions.
Why it matters: The district’s operating pressures include increases in health insurance, cyber-charter tuition, alternative education placement and transportation. Christy said the governor’s current budget proposal (as of February 2025) would increase basic education subsidy and several…
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