Arlington School Committee Tackles $900K Budget Gap and METCO Funding Squeeze After Override Victory

Twelve days after Arlington voters approved a $14.8 million Proposition 2½ override, a reorganized School Committee convened April 9 and immediately confronted the fiscal pressures that survived it — a projected $900,000 FY26 budget shortfall and years of flat state funding that have eroded the district's METCO program.