The Green Bay School District will face a $3.6 million deficit, but will avoid major cuts to its workforce.

The district points to the state budget, which cut state aid and increased payments to other schools, as the main reason for its deficit.

Green Bay is currently planning to go to referendum in November 2026.

The Green Bay Area Public School District is taking on a multimillion-dollar deficit in the 2025-26 school year rather than making major cuts to its workforce, it announced in a budget presentation.

"Budgeting is just a set of choices, a set of priorities," Green Bay School Board President James Lyerly said at the board's Oct. 13 workshop meeting. "And it has to be known that in the face of all that, we decided not to balance the budget on the backs of the teachers."

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