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  • How Scituate schools are spending an $883,000 surplus this year

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📰 News we're reading

• Scituate School Committee Revises Budgets, OKs Air Policy (upriseri.com) — Scituate's School Committee has reworked this year's budget, steering an $883,000 surplus into one-time needs like safer kitchen equipment, classroom furniture, and planning for a new CTE wing. Members also approved an indoor air quality policy, the annual crisis plan, and a corrected support staff contract, and outlined calendar changes including school closures for the art festival and holiday.
   

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