School Committee Chairperson Suzanne Salisbury is particularly angered by comments about the school portion of the budget made by Council President Anna Turcotte and Councilor Victor Chau.
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Westbrook homeowners face 8.8% tax increase
The tax hike resulting from the proposed municipal and school budgets is believed to be the largest the city has seen, the mayor says.
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Pared-back Westbrook school budget raises tax rate 82 cents
The School Committee unanimously approved the $46.8 million budget, which is up 7.5% over this year’s school budget.
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Letter: Cut city budget to manage taxes, not school spending
The mayor’s call for the school district to hold down taxes is hypocritical. The municipal budget increase last year was 9% while he held the school district to 4% when inflation was 8% in 2022. The schools have seen cuts for many years. There was an 18% decline in educators between 2017 and 2021, yet […]
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Proposed school budget raises Westbrook property taxes 16.4%
The $47.7 million spending plan, up $4.2 million from this year’s school budget, is now under review by the school board’s Finance Committee.
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New year could bring evictions for many renters in Westbrook
More than 200 Westbrook households and hundreds of asylum seekers will be impacted when federal rent assistance ends.
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Poitras returning to Westbrook School Committee for fourth term
Noreen Poitras handily defeated her challenger, Flynn Ross, 751-532.
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Poitras, Ross vie for Westbrook Ward 3 school board seat
Two candidates are hoping to land a three-year term on the School Committee in Westbrook’s Ward 3 race in the city’s election next month. Three-term incumbent Noreen Poitras is facing challenger Flynn Ross, a school and community volunteer. Poitras, 55, is frustrated with the state’s formula for funding school districts, while Ross says Westbrook schools […]
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Youth descended on Westbrook police station Saturday where Black juvenile taken
A crowd also confronted police officers at Together Days at Riverbank Park where the juvenile was suspected of fighting.
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Stricter cellphone policy for Westbrook Middle School starts in fall
The School Committee votes 6-1 on the changes that will impact seventh graders next year and eighth graders the year after that.