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Business administrator warns NFA tuition and out-of-district special-ed placements strain Norwich budget
Summary
Business administrator reported net tuition expenses of about $37.85 million and warned that decreased NFA enrollment and rising high-cost outplacements could create a tuition-related net deficit of roughly $1.1 million; administrators expect to seek legislative support for full excess-cost reimbursement.
At the Dec. 9 meeting of the Norwich Board of Education, the district’s business administrator told members that tuition and related NFA costs are now the single largest expense in the Norwich budget.
The business administrator reported a net tuition expense figure of approximately $37,849,000 for the year and said that NFA’s regular-education share represents about 20.8% of the district’s budget. He said October 1 enrollment showed 66 fewer regular-education Norwich…
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