HANCOCK — The Copper Country Intermediate School District (CCISD) learned more of what the recently passed state budget will mean for the district. At Tuesday’s board meeting, CCISD Superintendent James Rautiola said that while the district is still trying to dissect what every aspect of the new budget means, there are areas where they understand how the budget will play out.

“But from what we know right now, today, and what we believe to be true would be about a $500,000 (negative) difference to the Copper Country ISD,” Rautiola said. “Essentially there’s two programs that got hit. MiStem was flat lined, and then the Great Start Collaborative, we didn’t receive that flow through.”

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