Chester School Board approves first reading of $72.4M budget

Editorial: Two boards too weak to make the right decisions

By Cynthia Prairie ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC Over the past two weeks, both the Chester Select Board and the board of directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District could not have come across as weaker, more spineless. Under the mistaken guise of avoiding a political morass, they each punted their responsibilities: in the case of the Select Board to make a recommendation to the school board to fill the soon-to-be-vacant seat of Che…

Chester School Board approves first reading of $72.4M budget

The Chester County School Board approved the first reading at their May meeting of the 2025-2026 $72.4 million budget.