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Engagement office asks to keep and expand family liaisons, add multilingual and events communications staff
Summary
The chief engagement officer requested preserving eight family‑liaison positions funded by expiring grants, hiring five additional liaisons for high‑needs schools, and adding multilingual communications and a press/events specialist to central communications to improve outreach and storytelling.
The engagement office presented Priority 4 budget items focused on attendance, family outreach and district communications. Staff asked the board to retain eight family‑liaison positions currently funded by expiring grant money (which would otherwise reduce the number of family liaisons from 25 to 17) and to add five new family liaisons targeted to the district’s highest‑needs schools.
Staff explained family liaisons support attendance, connect families with school services and often serve multiple schools; adding five positions would reduce caseloads and allow liaisons to be more school‑based and proactive. The engagement director said some liaisons are bilingual (Spanish, French) and that maintaining multilingual capacity is a priority.
Communications staffing: The office also asked for a multilingual communications specialist to manage external communications for non‑English‑speaking families and for a press and events specialist to centralize event planning, press engagement and media‑relations work. The presenters said current communications staff of four are stretched thin supporting the district’s 22,000 students and that the additions would enable more proactive storytelling, better translation workflows and stronger event execution.
Board members generally supported the requests and highlighted the engagement team’s role in building public confidence. The engagement office said it will coordinate with the communications and academic teams on translation and family‑engagement plans and will return with implementation details.
