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Trustees consider trimming instructional coaching and reducing guaranteed field-experience expansion to close budget gap
Summary
Staff proposed reducing instructional coaching FTE from 25 to 15 and trimming guaranteed field-experience expansion to save money; trustees expressed concern about instructional support and the educational value of field experiences and asked for options.
As the board considered ways to close the FY26 funding gap, staff presented options that would reduce the number of school‑based instructional coaches and defer expansion of guaranteed field experiences for high school students.
Maya Kumazawa and Craig Domer, executive director of curriculum assessment and instruction, explained the instructional coaching model: 25 FTE currently provide job‑embedded professional learning,…
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