Education
UPDATE: How and Why Education Spending Is Up by 2.16% — Explanations From Town Officials
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Editor’s note: Here are three more statements from Monday’s votes approving the town education budget. All are marked “Update” below. They give a better picture on what town officials think of school spending. Several town officials spoke with prepared comments to the Representative Town Meeting about the education budget, with all of them defending it as, overall a good budget. The 2016-2017 education budget, which was approved by the RTM without changes, is up 2.16 percent from the Fiscal Year ’16-’17 budget passed last year, although it will be $2.2 million in the hole if the state eliminates all of its Education Cost Sharing grant to the town.