Each year, the Southern Regional School District’s goal is to allocate 60% of its budget toward direct instruction of its students while keeping all extra-curricular programs intact and offering a wide variety of Advanced Placement offerings. On May 4, Business Administrator Steve Terhune happily reported the 2022-23 budget accomplishes all of those goals, and the Southern board of education subsequently and unanimously approved it.

“Everything that is here today will be here next year,” Terhune said. “There are no reductions.