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Sedgwick School Board approves 2020-21 budget
The Weekly Packet
|1/30/2020
GSA tuition increase request kept separate.
SEDGWICK—The Sedgwick School Board unanimously approved a $2.7 million budget proposal for 2020-21, up $126,607 or 4.89 percent because of higher special education and high school tuition costs. Using $65,000 in balance forward and projected state funding of $242,000 will lower the increase to taxpayers to 3.7 percent.
“We worked a long time on this and had to make some hard choices,” school board member Elizabeth True said.
The increase in high school tuition comes from more projected high school students, not an increase in tuition paid to George Stevens Academy, as the independent school requested.
That decision likely will be decided by a referendum vote tied to six other towns—all sending towns to GSA—also approving the increase.
This story is from the 1/30/2020 edition of The Weekly Packet.
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