bracing for cuts due to the economic downturn and hoping for additional federal aid. “You have a significant increase in costs for school districts at a time when school districts are going to have less money.
Why? Because you see all of the states’ budgets are going to be decimated,“ said Ben Domenech, executive director of AASA. “How is that going to play out?”In the town of Stonington, Connecticut, school board chairwoman Alexa Garvey said it would help immensely with finances if the state eased guidance in place for the summer that there should be only one student on each seat of a bus.