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Sarasota leaders explain budget changes: ESSER expiration, 182 federally funded positions and district reductions
Summary
Superintendent Connor and board members outlined why the district cut or reallocated positions, citing the end of federal ESSER funds, a drop in enrollment and a multi‑step prioritization to preserve classroom teachers and class sizes.
Superintendent Connor and board members described how federal funds ending and enrollment shifts produced a multi‑stage budgeting process that reduced or restructured non‑classroom positions while aiming to protect classroom staffing and class sizes.
Superintendent Connor said the analysis began when ESSER (federal) funding expired and the district identified 182 positions previously funded by federal dollars that were not sustainable: “There were 182 positions across whether it be district level, but mainly at the school level. That was the first thing that had to…
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