Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor is warning that the school district will have to make difficult budget decisions this year and in the future.
In his annual State of the Schools address on Friday, Taylor said rising costs are eating away at the investments that have been made to maintain the level of services provided to students. The district has already announced it’s planning to eliminate 9% of its special education teaching positions due to rising costs in that program.
“The plain truth is these costs are growing faster than the funding available to support them, which means our community will face difficult choices in the years ahead,“ Taylor said Friday afternoon at Southeast Raleigh High School. “Which programs can we sustain? Which services can we continue to provide? And what will those decisions mean for students?”…