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Norwalk school leaders warn cuts possible after BET approves smaller increase than board sought
Summary
Norwalk's superintendent and finance staff told the school board that a BET decision to approve a 4% municipal increase, rather than the 4.9% the BOE and mayor sought, leaves a multi-million-dollar gap that could force reductions to non-school budgets and, if unresolved, further cuts to schools including meal program changes.
Norwalk's superintendent told the Board of Education on April 23 that a decision by the city's Board of Estimate and Taxation to endorse a 4% increase instead of the 4.9% the board had sought leaves the district facing a multi-million-dollar reconciliation gap.
Dr. Estrella, the superintendent, said the district treated this year's Panorama survey as a new baseline and then outlined mounting fiscal pressures. "If the funding that's coming into the schools does not equate to the rising cost ... we are inevitably placed in a predicament that we have to make reductions…
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