Onteora schools prepare for the worst - HV1

The Onteora school system may face instructional and other cuts if aid isn’t restored in the state budget. That’s the song every year that precedes restoration of state funding. But what if there’s a new tune this year?  Onteora would be affected more than most other school districts.

“I feel it necessary to present to you what I would consider a budget that would still provide a healthy instruction to our students — at a cost,” assistant superintendent Monica LaClair said at the March meeting of the school board.

The proposed 2024-25 budget is $61,178,200, down about a quarter of a million dollars — a mere smidgeon — from the 2023-24 budget of $61,322,550

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