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Little Rock School District board approves FY27 budget reduction framework amid concerns about early-childhood pay cuts
Summary
The Little Rock School District board approved a FY27 budget reduction framework on March 12 that trims roughly $1.1 million by not filling certain vacant positions. Board members voiced concern about an approximately $18,000 reduction affecting early-childhood coordinators and asked incoming trustees and staff to reexamine those impacts.
The Little Rock School District Board of Education voted March 12 to approve a FY27 budget reduction framework that school leaders said will remove roughly $1.1 million in budgeted costs by not filling certain vacant positions.
Dr. Bridal, who presented the framework, told the board the additional reductions came from a review of current vacant positions and enrollment projections. "That equated to another, little over things like 1,100,000," she said, describing the change as the only addition since the last version the board reviewed.
The framework vote followed…
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