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the MAY 2, 2024
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VOLUME 48, NO. 18
Sending out an SOS
Cast off
Community members push for ‘yes’ vote LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
With the South Burlington school district’s budget in limbo as another re-vote looms, concerned community members, parents and staff are taking to the streets to encourage the city voters to do one thing: Vote. Drivers headed through and around South Burlington this week are likely to be greeted by sign-waving parents, staff and teachers as they line the streets advocating for schools during what has already been an unprecedented budget year across the state. The South Burlington School District remains among the handful that have yet to pass a budget for next year, and also remains one of the districts most negatively affected by the shift in the state’s education funding mechanism that took effect this year. “When we build budgets, we try to look at the current year and then plan ahead and that ability has PHOTO BY MIKE DEAN
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