Deputy Superintendent Beebe told the Lake Washington School District board on June 23 how the district allocated staff after shifting high schools from a seven‑period day back to a six‑period day for 2025–26, with roughly 21 full‑time equivalent (FTE) positions reinvested across secondary schools and smaller, targeted investments to preserve programs.

Beebe said principals used tiered guidance when deciding how to spend reinvested staffing: tier 1 investments targeted classes most associated with graduation barriers, tier 2 aimed to maximize impact (for example, reducing class sizes), and tier 3 seeded new or high‑interest programs. The district assigned roughly 3 FTE to each comprehensive high school and 0.6 FTE to both Tesla STEM and International Community School, with other FTE distributed for department heads and inclusion supports.

Examples provided by school leaders included: Eastlake High School adding extra sections of Algebra I, English 10 and U.S. history to reduce class sizes and support on‑time graduation; Redmond High expanding credit‑retrieval offerings and co‑taught science and wellness sections; ICS adding multilingual co‑taught classes and continued AVID support; and Juanita High maintaining a CTE biotech section, adding technical theatre and partner PE for inclusion.

Beebe described additional district investments: funding to revise IEP service matrices created under the prior schedule, targeted professional learning for high‑school teachers to adjust to the six‑period structure, support to preserve band and orchestra offerings while avoiding disruptive staffing bumps, and small seed grants for student stores and extracurricular electives where enrollment patterns justified them.

The presentation noted the district aimed to minimize involuntary staff reductions and to buy time for programs with enrollment challenges by investing in marketing and stabilization efforts. Beebe said the district also set aside a modest reserve to address any unforeseen contract or workload impacts related to the scheduling change and to evaluate activity bus feasibility.

Ending: The board heard the reinvestment report as information; no separate vote on the reinvestment allocations was recorded at the June 23 meeting. District staff said principals will continue to refine schedules and that implementation work will continue over the summer.