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Article: School delay forces budget shortfall.
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- Connecticut Post
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- March 15, 2007
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Byline: Frank Juliano
Mar. 15--MILFORD -- The brand-new $78.4 million education budget that takes effect July 1 is already $55,000 in the hole because of a delay in opening the new Alternative High School. The $2 million conversion of the former Milford Academy classroom building on Gulf Street into the alternative high school was to have been completed before the new school year starts in September. Officials said Wednesday that the new facility is now expected to be ready in January, and that students would move from the leased space on Quirk Road after the February vacation.
"The timing was off for us to get this done by September because ...