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Parents, teachers and students urge board to protect counselors, media assistants and ALP amid FY26 cuts
Summary
Hundreds of speakers and dozens of students addressed the Board of Education, urging alternatives to staff cuts and calling attention to the value of counselors, media assistants, library staff, the second-grade advanced learning program (ALP), and other student-facing services.
Dozens of speakers — including teachers, union representatives, parents and students — used the public-comment portion of the Greenwich Board of Education meeting to press the board to spare student-facing positions and programs from FY26 budget cuts.
Union leaders and school administrators recommended alternatives to proposed cuts to counselors, learning facilitators, media assistants and other staff. The Greenwich Education Association (GEA) and the Greenwich Organization of School Administrators (GOSA) urged the board to eliminate nonessential external spending, reduce costly travel and tuition lines, and reassess device-purchase plans for early elementary grades.…
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