Bridgeport BOE trudges painfully toward a balanced budget

BRIDGEPORT — Proving nothing is safe when faced with cutting millions from a flat-funded school budget, the city school board has reversed itself and will cut six assistant principals from its budget after all. The 3-to-2 vote gives Schools Superintendent Aresta Johnson the discretion to determine which elementary school administrators to eliminate. Previously, assistant principals in schools with fewer than 500 students would have been cut. Board members Ben Walker, Joe Sokolovic and Maria Pereira voted for the cut, while Board Chairman John Weldon and Dennis Bradley voted no. Cutting the assistant principals will shave about $420,000 from the budget gap that once stood at $13 million.

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