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At the February 11, 2026 Board of Education meeting the First Selectman, sitting ex officio, said his "biggest issue" with the school budget is the preschool and that he focuses on it, and questioned whether preschool is still mandated (~1:47:30). Pressed later on where he would cut, he pushed for line-item detail and framed the increases as salary-driven (~2:19:13). The superintendent answered on the record that none of the roughly $499,000 budget increase is attributable to the preschool, and that recent enrollment growth splits roughly evenly between the elementary grades and the preschool (~1:39:40, ~1:59:46).