On January 22, 2025, district leaders and school principals conducted our first FY26 budget workshop.  In November of 2024, we asked our principals and district leaders to participate in a budget EXERCISE (not proposal) that assumed a level-funded budget as a baseline with an estimated (not final) $3.5-4 million dollars in contractual obligations

Principals and Central Office members:

• were provided with their total current staffing budget.
• were asked to reduce their budget by 6.65%. by identifying instructional and operational staff that could be reduced.

IMPORTANT:  We received hopeful news yesterday as the Governor's budget was released, which included an estimated $4,448,402 in additional Chapter 70 funds due to an increase in our student population and, unfortunately, an increase in the student attending poverty rate, which has reached close to 71%

Linked below is the presentation from the January 22, 2025 FY26 budget workshop. It is important to emphasize as strongly as possible that the principals and district leaders presented the outcomes of a budget exercise, not a budget proposal. This exercise was conducted to explore potential reductions and provide context for future discussions, but it does not represent an official proposal in any way. 

The first official budget proposal will be presented publicly on March 12, 2025. Until then, please keep in mind that the information shared last night was strictly part of an exploratory process, not a formal recommendation or proposal

Link to January 23, 2025 presentation.