Alamance County commissioners and school board members met for over seven hours on Monday to resolve a budget dispute, but couldn’t reach a compromise.
The Alamance-Burlington School System Board of Education voted last week to challenge the county’s budget allocation for the district, which fell several million dollars short of its request.
School officials say they need more money in order to stay competitive in terms of pay and staffing. The district also requested about $18 million for capital improvements, including building projects and teacher laptop replacement. The county appropriated about half of that…