The school district’s budget includes several items added Tuesday by the school board — after contentious debate — without public discussion.

With more state aid than the governor calculated, Guilderland School Board members are considering recommendations to add to next year’s $100.7 million budget proposal.

Concerns raised over the number of sports offered to girls in Voorheesville has the district looking to make additions.

He didn’t like high school and he didn’t complete it. Later, after he went to college and graduate school to become a teacher, Thomas Lutsic wanted to help kids have a different experience.

Most of the Guilderland students on the winning teams are freshmen.

Four posts are open on Guilderland’s board of education, and almost all members who are up for re-election are unsure if they will run.

Sanari Ismail of Farnsworth Middle School thinks that students should be able to feel safe at school. The national walkout was set to be exactly one month from the date of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died.

Elementary student Riley Better has a key part in “The Music Man” and, says the show’s director, he is “a model for the high school kids; he’s in it to work.”

Ellen Taussig, the new assistant superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for the Guilderland schools, says she’s a big sports fan and will enjoy rooting for the Dutchmen.