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An essential duty of any school board is to help plan and approve the annual district budget. Like most budgets, household or business, the goal of a school district budget

The 2023-24 preliminary budget was approved Monday, along with changes to the districts Behavior Education Plan and the elimination of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff.

Yoanna Hoskins, a product of Madison schools, has been an influential member of the school board. In the fall she heads to Stanford University.

To replace traditional honors classes, Superintendent Carlton Jenkins wants to expand the district’s current Earned Honors program to all core classes — English, math, science and social studies — offered to freshmen and sophomores.

Here’s my list of local folks who I think had the biggest impact on our community and state this year.