The Boston School Committee voted 4-2 Wednesday night to approve a new $1.45 billion budget to fund the system's upcoming school year — a $65 million increase over last year.
School buses travel along Dorchester Avenue on the first day back to school in Boston in 2022.
"We're building on things that are working and strengthening the areas that need support," said Superintendent Mary Skipper moments before the vote was taken."So that going forward [Boston Public Schools] will be the stable, high-functioning district that our families, our staff, our students need and deserve."
Administrators plan to spend $9.6 million to expand the district's inclusion school model, which provides students in special education more time in general education classrooms. The school system will spend $6.3 million on services for multilingual services, including the formation of a new bilingual programs department, additional social workers, as well as efforts to bolster the district's pipeline of bilingual educators.
Skipper also moved about $15 million worth of expenses that previously were covered by federal COVID relief funds onto the district's general budget. The federal funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , is set to dry up in September 2024.
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