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Bedford School Board backs full‑day kindergarten and recommends FY2026 budget with no operational tax increase
Summary
The Bedford School Board voted to recommend a special warrant to fund full‑day kindergarten and approved recommending the $90.9 million FY2026 operating budget; the board also supported a new three‑year teacher contract. Officials say full‑day kindergarten would cost $885,100 with a startup grant offset and an estimated $0.06 per $1,000 tax impact.
The Bedford School Board voted on Jan. 14 to recommend a special warrant article that would fund full‑day kindergarten and to recommend passage of the district’s $90,909,204 operating budget for fiscal year 2026.
The board’s action came after a public hearing in which district staff presented the kindergarten proposal and the full budget. Superintendent Mike Corninger said the kindergarten warrant is a ‘‘special warrant article for full day kindergarten’’ that would allow the district to ‘‘raise and appropriate the sum of $885,100’’ to implement full‑day kindergarten at Peter Woodbury, Memorial and Riddle Brook elementary schools and to qualify for a startup grant equal to half of base adequacy funding ($520,408 as calculated for estimated enrollment).
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