GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) - Green Bay's Board of Education approved the districts 2025-2026 budget which does include a $3.5 million deficit.

District officials said a number of factors have led to the deficit including declining enrollment (funding is based on the number of students a district has) and state and federal funding not keeping up with inflation.

GBAP's Chief Financial Officer Angie Roble said they are using the district's fund balance to take care of the $3.5 million deficit in the budget this year. The fund balance is the district's built-up equity that they can use to plug holes in the budget.

Roble and Board of Education president James Lyerly stressed that using the fund balance in this way isn't something they can responsibly do every year. Local Five News asked Roble wh

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