Board hears proposals to convert high‑school media roles, cut paraeducators and add athletic trainers as in‑house positions

The board and staff discussed specific school-based and non-school-based personnel changes proposed to help balance FY26.

Proposed school-based changes summarized by staff included: converting one of two high-school library media specialist positions to a paraeducator role (staff said the remaining high-school media specialist would continue to provide certified media services while a paraeducator would provide support), elimination of elementary media paraeducator positions (42 positions noted in the presentation), reduction or conversion of some middle-school paraeducators, and reductions in program offerings such as third-grade strings, diminished elementary gifted-and-talented (GT)…