After inquiring about the potential of other towns chipping in to pay for the education of children living on sovereign tribal land, the Aquinnah select board learned this week that the responsibility falls solely to the town.
Aquinnah voters approved a $110,000 debt exclusion question to fund their share of the Up-Island Regional School District budget at the annual town election Thursday.
The Up-Island Regional School District holds its public hearing on the 2024 operating budget Thursday, with a roughly 5.6 per cent increase over the current fiscal year.
Substitute teachers are in such short supply on Martha’s Vineyard that Vineyard schools superintendent Matthew D’Andrea is recommending a one-third pay increase, effective immediately.
Inking staff salary increases and a handful of new positions, the up-Island school committee last week approved the fifth and final draft of a $13 million district-wide operating budget for the new year.
The up-Island school committee heard updates early this week on plans for alternative learning spaces at the Chilmark and West Tisbury schools.