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Bedford School Board backs special warrant to fund full‑day kindergarten
Summary
After multiple community sessions and a district survey, the Bedford School Board voted to recommend a special warrant article that would fund full‑day kindergarten at the district’s three elementary schools; if approved by voters it would raise $885,100 in gross costs with a state start‑up offset.
The Bedford School Board voted to recommend a special warrant article to implement full‑day public kindergarten for fiscal year 2026 at Peter Woodbury, Memorial and Riddle Brook elementary schools.
Board members and district staff told a public hearing the proposal follows multiple school listening sessions and a community survey; the board previously voted 4–1 to place the item on the warrant. Superintendent Mike Coroner presented the proposal and said, “for fiscal year '26, the Bedford School District, is at this juncture, moving forward the proposal for full day kindergarten.”
The nut of the proposal: the warrant asks voters to “raise and appropriate the sum of $885,100 for a gross budget to implement full day public kindergarten” and to qualify the district to receive a state start‑up grant equal to half of…
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