The Fond du Lac School Board has adopted a 2016 budget. The budget includes a tax rate that has been reduced to $9.88 cents per thousand dollars of property v alue. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says increased property values helped reduce the tax rate. Forty one students are leaving the district under the state’s private school voucher program costing the district a preliminary estimate of $379,000. Sebert says the budget includes a number of staff reductions by not filling vacancies. “We reduced some media specialists, we have one less teacher at our alternative high school,” Sebert said. Other staff reductions include a teaching position at the STEM Academy and five instructional assistants.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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