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Lenox reports full general-education staffing but special-education vacancies remain; board approves nurse schedule change
Summary
Personnel staff said general‑education classrooms are fully staffed for 2025–26 but special‑education teaching assignments and some classified positions remain open; the board approved a salary‑schedule change that lets the district nurse reduce her work calendar and remain employed.
Personnel officials told the Lenox School District Board of Education that the district had filled all general-education classroom positions for the 2025–26 school year but continued to face vacancies in special-education teaching and several classified and administrative roles. The personnel update listed active recruitment and agency coverage for classrooms that do not yet have an assigned teacher. The personnel presenter told the board the district is “working very closely with our interim director, Miss Diana Grant, and our team specialists” to provide agency or substitute coverage where necessary. Personnel staff also described summer trainings for administrators and staff, including mandated compliance modules through the district’s ASCIP partnership and targeted trainings — for example, child-abuse prevention training referenced by staff as driven by a new requirement identified in the meeting as "AB 1913" and workplace-violence prevention refreshers. The board voted to approve a revised management salary schedule so the current district nurse could reduce her contracted days for personal reasons and remain employed; staff explained that the district will prorate pay and hire agency or extra-duty coverage to staff extended-school-year special-education assignments. District representatives described the change as a local accommodation consistent with practices in neighboring districts: “a lot of local districts ... do extra duty in the summer for the nurse,” one administrator said. Personnel staff also noted a negotiated safety provision that supplied steel-toe footwear to custodial and maintenance staff; risk-management and personnel staff arranged on-site vouchers and fittings over the summer, the presentation said. No change to district policy was reported for these staffing items; the nurse-day change was implemented by revising the salary schedule and was approved by the board at the meeting.
