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...proposed school budget, even without teacher salary increases, will cost citizens $11 on the tax rate, Superintendent of Schools William Lannon said last night...
...Lannon's budget called for closing the Agassiz School and three others--the Lincoln, Hagerty and St. Mary's schools--only as a last resort, if the City Council refuses to allow the school system to exceed the state-mandated...
...Lannon said he prepared the budget based on the assumption that teachers would not get raises this year, and added that if teachers do win salary increases, additional cuts would have to be made...
...Lannon said he would ask the city council to override the cap, but added that even with a 13 per cent increase in funding, which Lannon called the lowest educationally sound level, the school system would have to lay off nearly 80 teachers...
Hearings begin on the budget tonight. "If the capped budget goes through, we might as well go into the food services business," Lannon said last night. "I've already cut almost everything I've done in the last five years and I'm still $2 million shy of Gov. Kings' stupid cap." Lannon added...