The Portland City Council has approved the Portland School Committee's proposed $89,938,834 school budget for fiscal year 2011. Read a one-page flyer summarizing the budget.

A referendum on the Portland school budget will be held on May 11. All polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Absentee ballots now are available from the Portland city clerk's office.

Portland School Committee's proposed FY2011 school budget

Finance Committee's proposed FY2011 school budget

Superintendent's proposed FY2011 school budget

Budget Timeline

The Portland School Committee voted on December 16, 2009 to approve $2.8 million in cuts to the current year's school budget due to an anticipated loss of state education aid. See the list of cuts and Superintendent James Morse's memo to the School Committee about funding equity.