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Increased fuel prices, the cost of complying with court rulings to spend more on bilingual education, and tighter security following the January stabbing of a high school senior all increased costs above the level budgeted, School Superintendent William Lannon told the council...
...additional money will tide the schools over for the rest of this year, Lannon said, but he added severe budget cuts are likely next year...
Superintendent William Lannon originally recommended that the 58 members be granted tenure or be reappointed to their teaching posts, but the committee decided to fire the workers, a decision that can be reversed later this summer...
...have to increase taxes "like they have never been increased before," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 said last week. In the School Department alone, the no-science, no-reading budget ("everything I've done in the last five years, I've undone in the last five days," superintendent William Lannon said when he presented the document) will still demand an additional tax of $12 per $1000 of assessed property value. Adding school costs to the rest of the budget, property owners can expect to pay $30 to $50 more per thousand next year, an increase that will cost the average...
...appears likely to do. City employees need more than a 4 per cent pay increase when inflation is nearly five times that figure. And city services are not so bountiful that cutbacks are possible without touching basic necessities. The school committee should even consider increases in Lannon's bare-bones "educationally sound" budget. In a year when the system faces desegregation and is still recovering from a year marred by trouble, cuts in the level of services may turn out to be pound-foolish...