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Parents and board urge clearer staffing counts, oppose routine split classes; board highlights push to lift state special‑education funding cap
Summary
Teachers and parents urged the Vancouver Public Schools board to use actual staffing counts rather than projected numbers when planning cuts and to treat split classes as a last resort. Board members said they will advocate at the state Legislature to remove the 16% cap on special‑education funding.
Multiple parents and a teacher used public comment to urge the Vancouver Public Schools board to change how it counts staff for budgetary staffing decisions, to limit split classes and to better support students academically.
In public comment, Megan Formell, a dual‑language first‑ and second‑grade teacher at Sarah J. Anderson, asked the board to avoid using projected staffing numbers when determining certificated staff cuts. “When we did that last year, a lot of teachers that were working in buildings lost their jobs but weren't considered cuts, because they hadn't been hired from their…
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