BRUNSWICK

Brunswick schools will limit parents to observing one classroom for one child per month, for a maximum of one hour.

The new district policy limiting in-class observation — sent to parents this week in a letter from Superintendent Paul Perzanoski — is intended to reduce classroom interruptions school officials said are the result of a recent rash of requests.

“The district certainly wants to maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with parents and community providers,” the Nov. 13 letter reads.

But Perzanoski said the number of requests has increased during the past year to the point that it’s a distraction to students and a burden on teachers and administrators.

“We’ve had requests from several parents, several times in the same week, to come into class,” Perzanoski said Thursday. “It just got to the point where we’ve had to address it. It’s a disruption of the educational process, and we can’t have it.”

School board members also learned Wednesday that the district’s ledgers are square.

The annual audit of the district’s accounting, performed by South Portland firm Runyan Kersteen Ouellette, determined that all was accurate. The final tally revealed $2.4 million in budget surplus carried over from school year 2010-11 into the current year’s budget, said business manager Jim Oikle.

The district’s operating budget for 2012-13 is $33.4 million.

It includes $76,000 in federal reimbursements for money spent on children of military families in 2010, and $353 from a recent sale of surplus library books that was deposited back into the library’s book acquisition account.

jtleonard@timesrecord.com