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Superintendent urges public profile, warns of rising special-education costs and possible federal grant cuts
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Baietta proposed a public community-and-school profile and warned of growing special-education and ELL pressures that, together with rising benefits and retirement costs and potential federal-grant reductions, will affect the FY27 budget.
Superintendent Dr. Baietta asked the Stoughton School Committee to support creating and publishing a public community profile that would combine town census figures and school-level data.
"The idea is to track this over time," Dr. Baietta said, describing a web page that would include demographics, median household income and school enrollment. He asked committee members to recommend additional data points and suggested using student capstone projects to collect sources.
Dr. Baietta reviewed provisional October enrollment reporting and the DESE certification process. "Currently we're at 36 33…
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