WESTPORT — Supt. of Schools Thomas Scarice has proposed a $150.3 million budget for the 2025-26 school year, a 4.69 percent increase that would fund several new staffing positions.
The plan to restore two elementary school assistant principal positions — “the marquee request of the budget,” according to board Chair Lee Goldstein — might have received the most attention during a day-long budget workshop Friday at Saugatuck Congregational Church, but it was not alone.
Also included in the superintendent’s budget proposal is a facilities project coordinator, a new technology assistant, two new permanent middle school building substitutes and a part time elementary school health teacher.
Two assistant principals and a facilities coordinator were cut during last year’s budget-making process before reaching the school board. A board vote to include money to pay assistant principals failed on a tied vote…