February 6, 2009
Fosters
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Salem, N.H., residents have reversed their school Budget Committee and restored money for a public kindergarten program.
Residents voted overwhelmingly Thursday to put $1.6 million back in the proposed school budget.
The School Board included money for the program in the original budget, but the Budget Committee took it out, saying the state should pay because it was requiring public kindergarten.
The state is providing 75 percent of the cost of starting a program in all districts without kindergarten.
Salem’s final proposed budget goes before voters next month.