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G.I. school board approves spending plan

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com

Published: Friday, May 13, 2011 8:19 AM CDT
The Grand Island school board approved its spending plan for 2011-12 Thursday, outlining a budget that reduces school staff through a combination of reduction-in-force notices and deliberate decisions not to fill jobs left vacant through retirements and resignations.

Program changes and reductions will also occur as a result of those staff changes. Eliminating fifth-grade honor choir and delaying the start of band and orchestra instruction until the sixth grade were two of the more hotly debated proposals during two budget town hall meetings earlier this year.

However, no one appeared at Thursday's board meeting to raise those issues again.  Full Story

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