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Superintendent says Granite will use conservative fall projections to avoid midyear teacher moves
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Superintendent Orsley told a Kennedy Junior High audience the district will adopt more conservative fall enrollment projections after earlier midterm teacher reassignments and amid tighter state funding and the end of COVID relief funds.
Superintendent Orsley said Granite School District will adopt more conservative fall enrollment projections to avoid fall staffing adjustments that remove teachers from classrooms, speaking at Kennedy Junior High.
Orsley told listeners that early in the school year the district’s staffing projections were off and three teachers had to be reassigned after six weeks because there was no funding to retain smaller class allocations: “3 teachers had to be moved because there was no funding to be able to retain them,” Orsley said, calling the experience painful for students, teachers and communities.
The district faces declining enrollment and tighter budgets that are driving the change.…
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