budget_history

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What a school budget line was in each year, AT ONE STAGE. The stage argument is required and singular on purpose: `proposed`, `settled` and `actual` are three different documents about the same year, and a growth rate measured from an actual to a budget is partly growth and partly the step between them. That mistake put a special education escalator 1.5 points too high here and was invisible until somebody asked how the number was derived. Note also that a budget line is NET — what the town must raise after grants, fees and state aid — so a line can rise because a grant ended rather than because anything cost more.