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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
As the General Assembly moves to finalize a budget for the state and the Tiverton School Committee runs out of time to make substantial changes to its offerings for the next school year, here are three things to know about the possibility of full-day kindergarten in 2015-2016. One. Budget #2, which won the financial town referendum (FTR), is not to blame for the school department’s predicament. The 0.9% budget reduced the schools’ requested increase from $306,687 to $180,346, a difference of $126,341. It turns out that the school department didn’t include the extra state aid it expected to receive for full-day kindergarten — even though it was included in the department’s presentation to the Budget Committee. If the department had gone forward with full-day kindergarten, the difference between its requested budget and its actual budget would have been $63,134. That’s a tiny amount in a budget that’s almost $30 million. The real problem was that other estimates from the school department were off by $423,244. Two. The state isn’t coming to the rescue… at least not yet. There was a bit of excitement when Rep. John Edwards suggested that the state’s budget would include more money for kindergarten. As it …
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