WINCHESTER, Conn. (AP) - The request down to $18.6 million. education board in a The school board says the Connecticut town has sued the cuts put the school budget town, saying the proposed below the minimum state school budget is too small to requirement for education adequately educate the funding. community's children. The Hartford Courant reports The Winchester School Board that the selectmen say the filed suit in Superior Court budget is adequate because in Litchfield, claiming the school enrollment has town and selectmen violated declined by 20 percent in laws requiring towns to spend recent years and is expected a minimum amount of money on to drop even more. One school budgets and provide selectman calls the lawsuit a students with "suitable "farce." educational opportunities." ___ The town's selectmen cut the Information from: The school board's $22 million Hartford Courant.
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