That amounts to 3 percent of the $83.3 million that was spent on Norwich schools last year.
A total of 94 students were identified as non-residents through a new program that was launched a year ago with the hiring of Ed Peckham, a retired Norwich police detective. “Once I started looking into it, I found a ton of them and I thought it would slow down, once I got the initial ones that had never been checked on, but it seems to be staying pretty constant,” Peckham told the Bulletin in an interview in early December.
In fact, since the date of his annual report, Nov. 11 of this year, Peckham has found additional cases yielding $110,000 more in savings. The estimated savings is based on the per-pupil cost of education and is for only one year. The actual cost to the district is likely higher than the official estimates given that some students may have been attending for more than a year and could have continued doing so had they not been caught, according to Peckham.
Caroline Iggulden
Updated: 10 Dec 2020, 17:22
Caroline Iggulden
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RAYS of light shone through the dark days of this year as good causes were recognised by The Sun and its readers.
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