DOVER — At the end of a long night of impassioned pleas one more Dover Teachers Union rally, the City Council slashed more than $5 million from the default city school district budget Wednesday night.
The default school budget of a little more than $73 million for fiscal year 2022 was reduced to about $68 million, allowing Dover to achieve a total city budget that falls under the city tax cap. School leaders will now have to make final decision of their own, but previously said this cut could result in enacting a contractual clause to eliminate $1.7 million in raises for educators and reducing 29 positions, about half through retirements. The final Dover school budget will be approximately $68 million, about $1 million more than last year.