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November 12, 2026

Know Who You're Dealing With: How 20 Votes Cut Croydon's School Budget and 377 Put It Back

Robert Greene’s nineteenth law warns against offending the wrong person. In 2022 a 20-to-14 vote cut Croydon’s school budget by more than half. The town that answered had fought the state over its schools before, and it brought 379 voters to a meeting that needed 283.

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