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District 11 unveils budget prioritizing instruction, 10% pay increase and use of reserves
Summary
Superintendent Randy Goll and Deputy Superintendent Brandon Comfort presented a $2025–26 budget that increases pay, boosts school-based spending and uses fund balances; the board held a public hearing and heard a teacher complain about unspent materials funds.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Board of Education of Colorado Springs School District 11 on Wednesday heard the administration's proposed 2025'026 budget, which places a top priority on instruction and proposes a districtwide 10% salary increase while tapping fund balances to pay for one-time and recurring costs.
Superintendent Randy Goll opened the meeting's public session by reading his letter to the budget book and said the district will keep putting "dollars closest to students." Deputy Superintendent and Chief Resource Officer Dr. Brandon Comfort then reviewed assumptions underlying the proposal, including a projected per-pupil funding amount of $11,546 and roughly $100 million in combined fund balances across multiple funds.
The budget shifts more of the district's resources to classroom instruction, showing an instructional share of general fund spending that Comfort said rose to 59.9% from roughly 57% two years ago. "You've got to remember every single percent represents 1% of $353,000,000,"…
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