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Board discusses cuts and restructuring for community learning centers, resource coordinators amid budget gap
Summary
Trustees reviewed proposals to reduce and reconfigure resource coordinators that staff Community Learning Centers; administration presented options that could cut roughly $1 million from current resource coordination spending while preserving services through corridor/shared models and lead agencies.
Trustees spent a sustained portion of the March 17 meeting debating how to preserve community learning center support while reducing costs in the face of a multi‑million dollar budget gap. The administration presented two broad approaches — keep the existing lead-agency model but reduce total coordinator months (proposal 1A) or move some coordinators in-house as district employees (insource, proposal 2A) — each designed to lower the district’s current resource coordination cost.
Why it matters: resource coordinators are the point people who connect schools with community partners and outside services. The district currently spends roughly $4.1 million on resource coordination and lead agency reimbursements; the administration presented options that would reduce…
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