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Uxbridge schools propose $28.55 million FY26 budget, add nurse and ELL teacher while relying on one-time offsets
Summary
Superintendent Dwyer presented a $28,545,376 FY26 budget that meets the town'.6% limit by adding a 0.5 FTE nurse, a district ELL teacher and a therapeutic-classroom teacher while using $225,000 from the daycare revolving fund and drawing on school-choice revenue. Committee members asked for a five-year projection and analyses of school-choice and revolving-account sustainability.
Superintendent Dwyer presented the Uxbridge Public Schools proposed FY26 budget totaling $28,545,376 and said the district designed the plan to meet the Town's 3.6% guidance while protecting essential services.
The superintendent said the FY26 plan includes three staffing additions judged essential to student safety and mandate compliance: a 0.5 full-time-equivalent nurse (districtwide), a district English-language-learners teacher and a therapeutic-classroom teacher at Whiting. Dwyer said those additions respond to rising student medical and behavioral needs and to DESE expectations for ELL services.
Nut graf: The budgetary choice trades longer-term investments (textbooks, districtwide professional development and staffing stability) for immediate capacity in nursing, special-education supports and ELL services. Officials told the committee they are using one-time and revolving revenues to limit the operating increase, and members pressed staff for sustainability analyses before final recommendations.
Dwyer outlined the funding mix: Chapter 70 state aid, school-choice receipts, revolving-account offsets and grants. Key…
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