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Residents criticize recent board budget cuts and warn reductions could prompt families to leave
Summary
Multiple residents told the Stratham School Board they were alarmed by recent cuts to the proposed operating budget and questioned the board’s process and priorities. One family said it may consider withdrawing its child if the board limits administration authority.
Several Stratham residents used the meeting’s public comment period to criticize the board’s recent budget actions and to voice concern about the district’s direction if proposed cuts stand.
Patrick Quinn, of Lamington Place, criticized what he called selective public data displays posted on a local forum and warned the board’s budget actions are creating “the appearance of failure where there is none.” Quinn said the board voted at the previous meeting to cut about $111,000 from the operating budget and that the reduction would remove…
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