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Speaker 1: Superintended Mary Skipper introduced the twenty twenty seven fiscal year

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Speaker 1: school budget last night and announced there could be as

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Speaker 1: many as four hundred staff positions that could be cut

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Speaker 1: in the coming fiscal year. They are increasing spending by

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Speaker 1: four and a half percent in this proposal. However, according

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Speaker 1: to Skipper, it's still not enough to keep up with

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Speaker 1: pace of rising healthcare costs, labor, and special education costs.

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Speaker 1: In the new fiscal year, which begins on July first,

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Speaker 1: Inclusive education and bilingual programming are being considered priority areas

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Speaker 1: in this proposal, which totals one point seven billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio