Bridgeport school budget outlook called grave

BRIDGEPORT — On the eve of landmark school funding case going before the State Supreme Court, one of its key plaintiffs said 21,199 city school children here lose not matter which state budget plan is eventually adopted for the 2017-18 fiscal year. Bridgeport school officials held a press conference on Wednesday to tell anyone who would listen that another year of flat funding - or worse — at the hands of any of the budget plans currently under discussion spell disaster for the district. Schools Superintendent Aresta Johnson called the situation grave. ”We need to galvanize forces,” Johnson told a Dunbar School foyer filled with school officials, parents, and State Sen. Edwin Gomes.

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