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Superintendent says new state education aid figures leave Methuen ‘befuddled’; committee readies earlier budget schedule
Summary
District officials told the Methuen School Committee on Feb. 10 that the governor’s FY26 education-aid formula produces more limited increases than the district expected and urged an accelerated budget schedule to allow the city and schools time to assess impacts.
At the Feb. 10 Methuen School Committee meeting, the superintendent presented the district’s preliminary analysis of the governor’s proposed FY26 education-aid figures and summarized the administration’s plan to accelerate the district’s budget schedule in response.
The superintendent said the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) foundation formula incorporated a 1.93% inflation rate for FY26, producing what the district calculated as a $2.417 million increase in Chapter 70 state aid for Methuen over FY25. At the same time, the district’s required minimum local contribution increased by roughly $2.5 million (from a cited $47 million to $49 million on the presentation graphic). The superintendent described the…
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