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Interim superintendent highlights citywide funding needs, summer-program concerns and salad-bar pilot
Summary
Interim Superintendent Dr. Swartz told the board Jan. 16 that a press conference with mayors of Connecticut’s five largest cities emphasized funding shortfalls; he also reported a salad-bar pilot at Gilmartin that will expand to other schools.
Interim Superintendent Dr. Swartz told the Waterbury Board of Education on Jan. 16 that he joined a press conference at the state capitol with mayors from Connecticut’s five largest cities to advocate for additional funding for high-need districts.
“At that press conference...those five cities account for 48% of all homeless students in the entire state of Connecticut,” Dr. Swartz said, adding that the five cities “service 83% of our students of high need.” He also said, “I believe close to 4 in every 10 multilingual…
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