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Superintendent urges community advocacy as mandates and funding formula squeeze district finances
Summary
Superintendent framed declining enrollment, demographic shifts and more than 60 new state mandates as drivers of fiscal pressure and asked parents and residents to press state lawmakers for funding fixes and fewer unfunded mandates.
The district superintendent used the town hall to place the budget shortfall in a statewide policy context and asked the community to advocate at the state capitol for changes to the funding formula and for relief from unfunded mandates.
The superintendent said many of the district’s fiscal pressures stem from demographic trends — including declining birth rates and an aging population — and from mandates imposed by the…
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