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Metuchen school leaders: proposed 2025–26 school budgets keep district at 2% increase while funding textbooks, band, kindergarten planning
Summary
Presenters for the high school, Edgar Middle, Campbell and Moss described school-based budget lines—textbooks and AP materials at the high school, chorus and pond maintenance at Edgar, composition books and writing supports at Campbell, and planning for full‑day kindergarten at Moss (projecting 25–30 additional kindergarten students).
Several Metuchen school leaders presented their 2025–26 school‑based budgets at the board meeting, saying the combined approach supports classroom instruction while keeping the districtwide proposal near a 2% increase.
At Metuchen High School, presenters described modest decreases in some supply lines but increases to purchase AP and physics textbooks, a Yamaha intermediate trombone for music, Photoshop licenses for fine arts courses and added marching band funding to support higher competition fees and a…
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