Augusta Board of Education OKs 2021-22 budget, with less-than-1% spending hike
The proposed spending plan is to be presented April 6 to the Augusta City Council.
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The Augusta Board of Education meets Wednesday night over Zoom to vote on its proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year.
Emily Duggan via Zoom
AUGUSTA The Augusta Board of Education approved the proposed 2021-22 school budget at Wednesday night’s business meeting.
The proposed budget includes $32.64 million in spending a less-than-1% increase from current spending and is to be presented to the Augusta City Council at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6.
Superintendent James Anastasio said the budget “is a good one” that “serves the school department and students well, and reflects what we believe are the desires of the community now.”
Like many school kids in Central Maine (and the nation), our daughters are fully remote this week. Why? The concept is to provide a quarantine time for families that may have left the state, or had large gatherings, over the Christmas and New Years Holidays.
Honestly, I think it makes for a really chill transition between vacation mode and school mode. While I am glad I made it through my childhood without a global pandemic, I think it would have been cool to have a transition period between vacation and school.
Anyway.
On Monday, their first day back in class, my wife had set both 9 year old Denise and 7 year old Annie up with their classroom corners . They were separated so that they would be able to participate in their classes without interfering with each other.