Oxford School Budget Request Includes All-Day Kindergarten Proposal

The Oxford Board of Education approved a $26.1 million budget for fiscal 2015-16, which increases spending by $964,942 or 3.5 percent over the current spending plan, reports Jordan Otero, of the Republican-American.

The key element in the budget request is the proposal to add an all-day kindergarten program next year costing $136,738.

Last year during the budget process the proposal was axed but school officials are hopeful to add it for next year, Otero reports.

A total of 118 parents were surveyed and almost 100 of them indicated they supported the all-day kindergarten program, Otero reports.

Read Jordan Otero’s full Rep-Am Oxford budget article here.