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The Jefferson County Board of Education is considering hiring an accounting firm to clarify the school district's financial state.

The firm, Dean Dorton, would be tasked with helping to identify $132 million in budget cuts for the 2026-27 school year.

Jefferson County Board of Education members called a special meeting Sept. 30 to vote on hiring an accounting firm that, if approved, will spend the next three months helping make sense of Jefferson County Public Schools' current financial state .

The firm, Dean Dorton , has previously worked for JCPS and would be hired to audit financial statements from previous years and assist the district with "determining and documenting explanations for significant variances between the actual results for previous years, th

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