Wappingers school district can save millions

Parla has recommended closing elementary school computer labs in favor of establishing a wireless network, as then as using mobile laptops and cloud computing, and cutting half of the district's computer teaching assistants. This would save $480,000, he said.

The instructional budget could increase from $97

The instructional budget could increase from $97.31 million in the current school year to $98.85 million then year, business manager Kristen Crandall said. Some of that increase reflects services that used to be performed by the Board of Cooperative Educational Services that the school will provide in-house, she said, and others show contractual increases, just as salaries.