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Finance chief outlines budget timeline, mitigation progress and new equity-focused worksheet

New Haven Public Schools Finance and Operations Committee · November 18, 2025
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Summary

Finance staff reported October expenditures, described a mitigation plan that reduced a prior $23.2 million deficit and detailed an accelerated FY26–27 budget timeline plus new worksheet changes that return allocations to an enrollment basis with additional weighted support for special education and multilingual learners.

Finance director Mr. Hernandez presented the October financial report and an updated budget-development schedule, telling the committee, "For total expenditures through October 31, we had $56,400,000," and that the district is monitoring two line items — transportation and tuition — that drove encumbrances to roughly $90,000,000.

He reviewed mitigation work that he said has reduced an earlier $23,200,000 deficit down to a remaining mitigation target of about $3,800,000…

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