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Brookings schools present preliminary 2025-26 budget; federal Title II funds not yet released
Summary
District staff presented a preliminary 2025-26 budget that assumes steady enrollment and flags a major uncertainty: federal Title II allocations to South Dakota remain unreleased, increasing the chance the district will use fund balance or general-fund transfers to cover special-education costs and other programs.
The Brookings School District 05-1 board received a preliminary presentation of the 2025-26 budget from Stacy Van Beek, director of business and finance, who said the district will not adopt a final budget until the Aug. 11 board meeting.
Van Beek told the board the district is assuming steady enrollment near 3,500 students for the fall while noting some outstanding applications that could alter the final count. “We will not adopt a final budget until August,” she said, adding that child-count figures are firmest in December.
A central uncertainty is federal Title II-A funding. Van Beek said the federal government had not released roughly $6 billion in grants as of July 1 and that South Dakota’s share—about $25.8 million across the state—remained…
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