Boston school closings are back on the table
Boston parents, students, and teachers, consider yourselves warned: School closures are still on the table.
The school system’s long-term financial advisory committee is expected to release a much-anticipated report Tuesday morning on “10 big ideas” that could lead to $100 million in annual savings. Among them: closing schools, cutting buses for potentially 11,000 students, and scrutinizing teacher pay and special education services.
The options, which are scheduled to be presented at a panel discussion Tuesday, aim to bring financial stability to a school system that has been cutting millions of dollars to balance its budget annually as it grapples with expenditures that have been growing much faster than revenues.
City and school officials emphasized in a briefing with reporters Monday that the options are not formal recommendations. Rather, they are intended as a starting point for a public conversation on how the school system should reduce spending.
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