Niles schools brace for another fiscal crisis

Niles schools brace for another fiscal crisis

NILES

Voter approval of a renewal school levy last Tuesday has staved off a state declaration of fiscal emergency for now, but the Niles school district faces the same threat again with the start of the new fiscal year this July.

“We are still under the specter of a fiscal-emergency declaration because our current five-year plan shows a deficit of more than $2 million for fiscal year 2013, and we have to show the state we can eliminate it,” said Mark Robinson, school superintendent. Fiscal year 2013 begins July 1.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.