Berkeley High Bridge coordinator warns 44% cut would make program 'untenable'
Jessie Luxford, coordinator of Berkeley High School's Bridge program, told SBAC a proposed 44% cut (1.5 FTE) would likely force the program to stop accepting a new cohort and undermine supports that help African American and Latinx students. She offered $20,000 in grant funds to sustain summer sessions if reductions are smaller.
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Jessie Luxford, coordinator of Berkeley High School's Bridge program, told the Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee that staff learned last Friday of a proposal to reduce the program by 44 percent, or 1.5 full-time equivalent positions, and warned the cut would make continuing the program "untenable." Luxford said the scale of the proposed reduction would likely force the program to decline enrolling a 32-person incoming ninth-grade cohort.
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