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Tolland board hears staffing and student-support shortfalls as budget trade-offs loom
Summary
Board members told the superintendent that reduced nurses, gaps in social work and PTA/PPT facilitation, and the clubs funding model present immediate concerns; members asked scenarios to show costs of protecting nurses and adding a social worker and PPT facilitator.
Tolland school leaders and board members used the budget workshop to highlight gaps in student supports and to press the board to avoid cuts that would reduce direct services to students.
Teachers’ aides, nurses and counselors came up repeatedly. Board members said the middle school is short roughly 0.5 FTE in nursing coverage and that library‑media coverage has been split across two schools. One board member said the middle‑school absence of a full‑time social worker is notable and recommended adding a social worker position or swapping a proposed MTSS…
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