Board warns health premiums could force programme cuts

What happened

On May 28, 2026 the board adopted a resolution on school health-care costs. It says growth in health premiums is unsustainable, points to the mounting insolvency of the state's public employees health benefits fund and to double-digit year-over-year increases in the private market, and states that these pressures force districts to use the full extent of their available tax levy and can still leave them unable to cover the increases because of the property tax levy cap. The resolution warns that the consequences include district deficits, programme cuts and school closures.

Why it matters to families

This is the board saying in its own formal language what the money problem could cost students if nothing changes. It is also the explanation for the levy increase the board approved a month earlier using the state's health-care exception. Nothing has been cut on the strength of this resolution, but it sets out what the board thinks is at stake.

The evidence

The May 28, 2026 approved minutes and agenda carry the resolution, which recites the unsustainable growth in health-care premiums, the mounting insolvency of the state's public employees health benefits fund, double-digit increases in the private market, districts being compelled to use the full extent of their available tax levy despite the limited health-care exception, and downstream consequences including district deficits, programme cuts and school closures.

The source