The Bulloch County Schools will receive $4 million more in state funding next school year than they have this year, Chief Financial Officer Troy Brown showed the Board of Education in a preliminary report Thursday.Of that total, the state has mandated how $1 million will be spent. From the remaining $3 million, school district officials plan to eliminate furlough days and restore a few assistant principal posts and other jobs that had been cut in recent years. The money, Brown said, will also bring the school system much closer to a balanced budget than this year’s $3.5 million in deficit spending.“Because of these infusions that we are receiving from the state, our future looks much brighter, our glass is much more full, this year than what it has been in the past with the state of the economy,” Brown told the board.The system reduced its fund balance with this year’s deficit, but still has a balance exceeding 15 percent of its annual revenues.
Bulloch schools get $4M boost
More state funding will help restore jobs, eliminate furloughs