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Hillside superintendent warns of tight budget, reports enrollment dip and policy mandates
Summary
Superintendent Glover told the Board of Education that enrollment has fallen, state aid will be flat or cut, and the district must update cell-phone and artificial-intelligence policies; he also noted high free-and-reduced-lunch rates and a small philanthropic effort to reduce lunch balances.
Superintendent Micheal Glover told the Hillside Public School District Board of Education on Dec. 19 that the district is facing a “tight” budget outlook, declining enrollment and new state policy mandates that will affect operations and student requirements.
Glover said the district’s overall free-and-reduced-lunch rate is about 73 percent and that lunch-balance philanthropy has raised roughly $6,000 in the last month to help families. He also said Hillside saw a decrease in enrollment “by approximately 41 students” this year and later said “approximately 200 students” have left the district in recent years — figures he presented as part of an explanation of the district’s fiscal pressures. Glover added that 100 Hillside students currently attend charter schools and called that a roughly $2 million annual outflow from the district.
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