The Bethel school board met last week, and adopted a higher 2023-24 spending plan than the one that Superintendent Christine Carver proposed back in January… a $54.4 million budget that adds two positions to support literacy and math instruction. It also brings the proposed year-over-year spending increase from 5.95 percent to 6.37 percent. Superintendent Carver said that without the addition of the two specialist positions, about 200 students would not get the additional support they need in literacy and mathematics. The budget proposal was scheduled to be presented to the Board of Selectmen last evening, and to the Board of Finance when they meet tonight at 7. No word this morning on whether or not the winter storm may have affected those plans.