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By SHARON KILPATRICK

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

The School Board adopted a $5.4 million budget for the coming school year Tuesday night.

The budget total and the county’s share was increased by $11,500 over the original proposal. The art teacher’s position will increase from 40 percent to 70 percent of a full position and the second speech therapist’s position will increase from 60 percent to 80 percent.

At last week’s meeting the two speech therapists recommended that the second speech position be made full time. They said that, while the work load does not exceed state mandates, it does exceed state recommendations based on a point scale for evaluating severity of speech problems.

At that meeting School Superintendent David Gangel said that while it would be desireable to have two full-time speech therapists, there were other things that also would be desireable

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