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Joint Finance Committee hears Department of Education FY2026 budget overview, $2.35 billion general fund recommended
Summary
Secretary Cindy Martin and department staff presented the Delaware Department of Education's fiscal year 2026 recommended operating budget and explained line items including mental health block grants, unit‑value increases, scholarship reallocations and several programmatic adds and reallocations.
Secretary Cindy Martin and department staff presented the Department of Education's recommended fiscal year 2026 operating budget to the Joint Finance Committee, outlining a recommended general fund appropriation of $2,354,516,500 and a package of program and personnel adjustments.
Kylie, a department staff presenter, told the committee the budget includes an appropriated special fund spending authority of $5,869,500 and personnel changes in fiscal year 2025 and 2026. Kylie said the recommended budget contains a personnel contingency of $168,352,900 and specifically noted adjustments tied to slower-than-projected unit growth: “Instead of 225 units of growth this year based off of the September 30 unit count, the actual unit growth that we…
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