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It's pretty simple, you need X dollars to fund the Basic Educational Plan, and then we as a community decide what to add on to that. (No one just does a skimpy BEP). Things like smaller class sizes, technology updates, specialists, and sports - which are necessary to a good educational experience for our offspring - are added like a la carte, debated, and decided by our elected school committee.

And we did the consolidations, which I reluctantly agreed with, and those savings are now part of the budget. There are no more big ticket savings to be had.

I disagree with the janitorial cuts, and most cuts because it's not like we had a Cadillac education system to begin with. At the end of the day, it costs what it costs. Rob Cote has mentioned numerous city side savings. I'm not expert enough to assess those but maybe there's something there to be had if they take an honest look.