{"id":1206477,"date":"2026-09-16T01:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1206477\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:44:19","slug":"birmingham-city-schools-approves-545-million-budget-for-fiscal-year-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1206477\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Schools approves $545 million budget for fiscal year 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City Schools approves $545 million budget for fiscal year 2027<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c90ca2ca-9bdb-4afe-ad06-115b540c5767_1729194038.jpeg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Shannon Delcambre\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">School leaders in Birmingham approve more funding for schools during the next fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Birmingham City Schools Board of Education approved a $544.97 million budget for fiscal year 2027, which is an increase of more than $63 million from the previous year. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;This budget represented an important investment in the future of Birmingham City Schools and, most importantly, the future of our scholars,&#8221; said Superintendent Mark Sullivan. &#8220;We were intentional about directing resources toward teaching and learning, supporting our employees, strengthening our schools and creating opportunities that prepared our students for college, careers and life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The budget includes two locally funded personal leave days, a $3,500 allowance for special education teachers, and sign-on bonuses for critical positions.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The school board also budgeted $77.8 million for capital projects.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Other investments include summer and after-school programs and funding for school safety and security cameras. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;Our responsibility was not simply to fund another school year,&#8221; Sullivan said. &#8220;It was to make strategic investments that had a lasting impact on our scholars, our employees and our community.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\"><strong>Your neighborhood: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Local coverage from WVTM 13<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Schools approves $545 million budget for fiscal year 2027 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 School leaders in Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1206478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[326689,855,294978,748,1194,29,12058,20451,393,326687,10282,4884,21062,1197,756,326688,326691,162432,15642,326690,857,16,15,185598],"class_list":["post-1206477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-after-school-program","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-schools","tag-britain","tag-budget","tag-career","tag-college","tag-employee","tag-england","tag-fiscal-year","tag-future","tag-great-britain","tag-increase","tag-investment","tag-learning","tag-more-funding","tag-other-investment","tag-scholar","tag-school","tag-school-safety","tag-schools","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wvtm"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117278192028620020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}