SUSAN JOHNS
Fri, 04/09/2021 - 8:00am
Thanks to $700,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 can avoid a “pretty significant” staff cut, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle told the district’s board Thursday night, April 8. The risk of cuts stemmed from the “devastating” $420,000 drop in state subsidy the district learned of in February, Tuttle said.
He learned in March, the relief money can go to keeping staff and programs. Without it, towns would be facing a 20% hike, “which obviously we would not do, so we would be reducing staff and creating bigger class sizes,” he said in the April 7 meeting carried over Zoom and Youtube.