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WESTMINSTER â Members of the Bellows Falls Union High School board got their first look at the proposed 2021-22 school budget of $8.8 million and its 11 percent potential increase.
Flora Pagan, the business manager for the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, outlined the budget and its areas of major increases: special education is up 63 percent, she said. Director Jack Bryar of Grafton said that increase in special education âwas the largest percentage increase weâve had. It didnât look right,â he said.
The current school budget is $7.1 million.
Additionally, wages are budgeted at an increase of three percent, while benefits are up 8 percent.
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BELLOWS FALLS â A school search committee has evaluated 28 different buildings in its quest to find additional classroom space for seventh- and eighth-graders at Bellows Falls Middle School.
The middle schoolâs upper grades have been restricted to two days a week of in-person classes since September because of the space restrictions imposed by the state in response to the coronavirus.
Bellows Falls Middle School Principal Karen Bukowski told the Rockingham School Board Monday evening that her committee was looking all over the community for the additional space.
Superintendent Christopher Pratt said that so far no space was deemed the right fit. He said requirements for students are more demanding than for adults, and that ventilation was a big consideration.