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East Haven budget workshop: district would restore two elementary literacy coaches; insurance and transport lines explained
Summary
At a budget workshop, district leaders said a proposed 2.0 FTE increase would restore one literacy coach to each elementary school, explained a five-year averaging method for medical insurance projections, and clarified a prior misclassification that shifted magnet transportation costs to regular transportation. The board will reconvene next week to vote on the budget.
Speaker 1 opened the East Haven School District budget workshop and described proposed changes to staffing and budget assumptions ahead of a scheduled vote next week. "That 2 FTE just speaks to there being one literacy coach in each of our five elementaries," Speaker 1 said, adding the district currently staffs three literacy coaches and the proposal would reinstate the two positions cut in the previous proposed budget.
The reinstatement of 2.0 full-time-equivalent literacy coaching positions was presented as part of a broader instruction and implementation plan tied to new ELA programming. Speaker 1 said the…
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