By LINDSAY CAREY STAFF WRITER The Board of Education (BOE) finalized the budget for the 2015-2016 school year, and the board unanimously approved spending $90,197,401 with a 3.59 percent increase from last year’s budget. Director of Business and Finance Sherri DiNello presented the budget, which she crafted along with school administrators based on the year to year needs of the school system. It also includes new requests from the Board of Education in budget workshops. Board of Education Chairman Brian Goralski opened the floor for discussion on some of the new items in the 2015-2016 year budget. Some of the major items of discussion included providing more support for the English Language Learners (ELL), more assistance in the Pupil Services department for the district, and whether or not to financially support after-school enrichment programs. Terry Lombardi opened with an impassioned discussion regarding the English Language Learners (ELLs) within the Southington Public Schools. Dinello invited Derynoski Elementary School Assistant Principal Kelly Nichols to share data regarding the amount of instruction time ELLs are currently receiving. Nichols shared that only 12 percent of new ELLs are receiving one hour of English Language Service (ELS) per day, which is the recommendation by the […]
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