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District staff outline instructional, CTE and HR budget priorities; board raises questions on textbooks and New Horizons costs
Summary
Gloucester County Public Schools staff presented elementary and secondary instructional budgets, career and technical education (CTE) funding including Perkins grant estimates, and human-resources priorities; board members pressed for textbook inventory, clarity on New Horizons costs and confirmation of federal grant funding.
District instructional leaders presented budget materials for elementary and secondary instruction, career and technical education and human resources at the Gloucester County School Board work session on Oct. 28.
Presenters, including Doctor Amy Stamm (elementary) and Doctor Migas (secondary), said salaries and benefits account for the largest share of both elementary and secondary instructional budgets. Contracted services—examples cited included WHRO and NWEA testing platforms—and central classroom resources, including online textbook subscriptions and professional learning, are the next largest spending categories. Staff said many K–12 materials are now online subscriptions rather than printed textbooks and that Title I funds currently support some elementary classroom supplies and genre/nonfiction books used for cross-curricular instruction.
Board members asked whether textbook…
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