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Board members clash over possible cuts to instructional coaches amid budget pressure
Summary
Trustees debated the role and value of instructional coaches after staff identified potential staffing reductions; some board members urged cuts to save roughly $4 million while principals and administrators defended coaches as essential to instruction.
Kenosha Unified trustees engaged in a heated discussion over instructional coaches after district staff flagged personnel reductions as a possible budget lever.
“The value what we're spending on instructional coaches is gonna be somewhere in the ballpark of $4,000,000,” a district presenter said during the agenda review. Board member Mr. Tunney responded that eliminating or redeploying coaches into classrooms would generate large savings and argued teachers and students are the “priority.”
District staff and…
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