Kent City Schools

Kent asks voters for levy approval amid financial challenges

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Kent City School District leaders hope voters will approve a 9.8-mill continuing levy in May. If approved, Issue 1 will generate $8,522,335 annually for the district’s general operating budget.

That’s the budget that funds day-to-day costs associated with the district’s current level of services: teacher and staff salaries and wages, employee benefits, utilities, transportation costs (including purchasing new school buses) and instructional and operational supplies, such as classroom materials, paper and custodial supplies.

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