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GCCS says $100M budget funds raises and upgrades; superintendent supports new student phone restrictions

School of Talk (podcast) · May 7, 2026
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Summary

Superintendent Lochner described how Greater Clark County Schools manages a roughly $100 million budget across separate funds, said the district awarded significant raises through collective bargaining, and supported a new phone policy with classroom exemptions and staged enforcement.

Greater Clark County Schools Superintendent Mr. Lochner told the School of Talk podcast the district operates with a roughly $100,000,000 budget split into several legally separated funds—operations, education, debt service and an operations levy—and explained the limits that structure places on transferring money between uses. "You have the operations fund... then you have the education fund... and then you have the debt service fund... you can't transfer money from the debt service fund into the education fund," he said, adding that directors must track revenue sources and comply with…

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