Providence’s final school budget absorbs a $332-per-student charter tuition increase and nearly $700,000 more in CTE tuition to other districts — costs officials said will carry into next year’s baseline rather than disappear.
The Providence School Board’s finance committee voted Wednesday to recommend the district’s final fiscal year 2027 local budget to the full school board, after questioning the budget officer about roughly $3 million in tuition cost increases that officials said will carry into next year’s budget as the new starting point.
According to the Providence School Board Finance’s published meeting recording, the committee took up the appropriation, classification and compensation ordinances that make up the final local budget, along with a memorandum to the committee. The motion to forward the budget with a recommendation for approval passed by voice vote with no opposition…