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Yakima public, union and district spar over staff reductions and reassignment plans
Summary
Parents, union leaders and staff urged the Yakima School District board to reverse or clarify recent reassignments and reductions after district officials described how seniority, recalls and attrition were used to reassign employees and said reductions yielded about $20 million in savings.
Union leaders, staff and parents pressed the Yakima School District Board of Directors on June 2 about recent layoffs, reassignments and assistant-principal moves, arguing the changes disrupt services for students while district officials defended the personnel actions as required by contract and driven by retirements and recalls.
The dispute centered on a wave of position eliminations announced earlier in the 2023–24 school year and subsequent reassignments. “At the end of the 2324 school year in March, we had announced 61.5 positions, represented by YEA, which were eliminated,” said Anthony Murrieta, assistant superintendent of operations and human resources, explaining how seniority and recall rules were applied. He said roughly 40 additional positions were subject to reduction-in-force (RIF) procedures and that 80 retirements or resignations occurred during the same period.
Why it matters: Community speakers said the staffing moves — including…
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