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Public commenters urge council to direct state aid into Bridgeport schools
Summary
Speakers at the Bridgeport City public hearing urged the council to allocate newly available state aid to classrooms, with one calling for the entire $10 million in one-time funds to be added to education spending and others citing recent state increases that could raise available local school dollars.
Joseph Kolovic, a Bridgeport resident, told the council that the city is poised to receive roughly $10,000,000 in one-time state aid and urged the council to direct “every cent of the $10,000,000 in extra state aid into education” in addition to what the mayor proposed. “The only question is whether the council will make the difficult choices,” Kolovic said, arguing that recurring budgets should be stabilized through a minimum budget requirement so schools can plan.
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