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Bridgeport Schools Getting Close To Closing Budget Gap -- But Another Looms
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The Bridgeport school district's budget deficit of almost $6 million is close to filled, Marlene Siegel, the district's CFO said -- not through through magic, but by hard work. "It's called fiscal management," she said, as the Connecticut Post reported.
Siegel said a hiring freeze accounted for $1.6 million of the deficit-filling, $2.4 million was from the insurance reserve, and the rest through mechanisms like teacher vacancies and more assertive Medicaid billing, as reported by the Connecticut Post.
But the district's problems aren't all solved, even if this…
