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At the March 4, 2026 Board of Finance budget meeting the superintendent explained the preschool's finances: tuition is $6,000 per child, matching the state early-start reimbursement rate and unchanged over her tenure; the eight preschool staff salaries are covered by roughly $440,000 of combined grant funding plus that tuition; and without the preschool the district would still owe mandatory special-education services for those children, an estimated $300,000 carried in the general fund with no offsetting tuition, because special-education students pay no tuition by law.