Despite an increase in costs for staff benefits, the Southern Regional School District’s budgetary goals – to allocate as much of its funding as possible toward direct instruction of its students while keeping all extracurricular programs intact and offering a wide variety of Advanced Placement and dual-credit college offerings – are on par with past years’.

On May 3, Business Administrator Steve Terhune happily reported that while the allocations toward direct instruction didn’t quite meet the 60% threshold…