The Langley School District’s budget for the coming school year will see some belt-tightening, with costs rising faster than funding is coming from Victoria. The Langley school board gave preliminary approval for a $429 million budget for its 2026/27 school year at its May 26 meeting. “This has been one of the harder budgets that we’ve had to do since I’ve been here,” district treasurer Brian Iseli told the board. “The cost pressures that the pr…