State lawmakers did some shuffling to maintain public school funding at the current level in next year’s budget.
A $33 million dollar textbook fund for local schools is gone. The State Department of Education is losing $6.6 million for administrative costs. The biggest loss, however, is 30 percent of the public school activities fund.
That’s nearly $40 million less for alternative and remedial education, the Teachers Retirement System, an early intervention program for disabled infants and toddlers, Teach for America and other programs.
The activities fund’s initial 2016 budget of $130 million was cut to $116 million after two revenue failures.
State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister told the State Board of Education about the cuts Thursday in its regular meeting.
