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New obstacles to face for ‘24 budget season what we have — there are other districts that have cuts. We did not have a cut. But if the founThe Malver ne and West dation aid formula was applied, Hempstead school districts are we would have had $200,000 gearing up for their budget and more.” But administrators say they Board of Education votes next saw a dip in reveT u e s d a y. T h e nue coming from a spending plans for mile away. Over the the 2024-25 school past few years, they year are the first to have been building g rapple with the into their budgets end of state and the programs and federal coronavirus staff they originalpandemic funding ly added with the — but administrahelp of Covid aid. tors in both dis“For example, tricts believe that we added a social by being fiscally w o r k e r, w h i c h conservative, ( w a s ) s o v i t a l ly they’ll be able to needed during make their budgets Covid,” Lewis said. work. “We continue to see those learning lossMalverne DANIEL REhMAN es, social emotional The lack of state Superintendent, losses. We knew funding — pandemWest Hempstead that we needed to ic-related and othkeep that person in erwise — that Malverne is seeing is a last-minute our budget … so once those switch from Gov. Kathy Hochul, funds disappeared, we had Lorna Lewis, Malverne’s super- those built internally in our budget, so we didn’t lose that intendent, said. “We did not get the alloca- altogether.” The problem for many teachtion that had been anticipated if the governor had followed ers and administrators is that the foundation aid formula,” although schools are no longer Lewis said. “We are grateful for Continued on page 5

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Celebrating Mother’s Day with a ‘par-tea’ The Girl Scouts of West Hempstead and Franklin Square celebrated Mother’s Day with a stylish tea party. Lola Campbell, 6, of Daisy Troop 1551, said her favorite part of the celebration was decorating a mug for her mother, Lateefah, who loves coffee. Story, additional photos Page 4.

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