Concord school district faces $5m budget shortfall
The district recently received an unexpected $2 million bill from the risk pool that administers its health insurance, part of a debt shared by dozens of school districts across the state
Author: Jeremy Margolis-Concord Monitor
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Concord school district faces $5m budget shortfall
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Amid Claremont crisis, Pittsfield school district works to dig out of its own million-dollar hole
As a crippling financial crisis uncovered in recent weeks in Claremont makes headlines, Pittsfield, too, is reckoning with a budget shortfall of more than a million dollars as a new school year gets underway. Pittsfield’s deficit, discovered early this year, is roughly $1.8…
