WESTFIELD – During Finance Director Shannon Barry’s monthly report to the School Committee on Dec. 2, Barry said there is an unexpected deficit of over $1.5 million in special education and transportation in this year’s budget, largely due to several out-of-district placements that came in after the budget was approved in April.
“I really feel that the reimbursement system and the method of determining the costs; that system is broken,” said Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski.
