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Adult‑education ESL instructors urge pause on cuts, ask for audit after summer‑school cancellations
Summary
Multiple adult‑education ESL instructors told the Mount Diablo Unified board they face cancelled summer classes, unresolved promised raises and potential layoffs; speakers urged a budget review and asked the district not to cut ESL positions.
At the Mount Diablo Unified School District meeting June 11, several part‑time adult‑education English‑as‑a‑Second‑Language instructors used public comment to urge the board and superintendent to halt cuts and to review past budget decisions.
Speakers, including Alyssa Steckel, Maren (Maureen) Anton, Tatiana Dutra Emilio, Amanda Sakatz and others, said summer school had been canceled this year and that staff and students had received little advance notice. Several described promises from administrators that pay increases were forthcoming and said those raises had not been implemented. Alyssa Steckel said many instructors were told raises would be retroactive and that, “based on WIOA funding data and a history of funds returned unspent, we believe that it is not exactly correct that there was no budget available for ESL summer school.”
Amanda Sakatz, who identified herself as a Pleasant Hill council member but spoke in her capacity as a Monte Alba adult‑education instructor, said the administration had not offered the usual pre‑fall assignment queries to teachers and that registration staff reported plans to reduce teachers and place more students in each classroom. Several speakers asked the district to examine administrative staffing levels as an alternative to cutting instruction and to investigate whether state grant funds were returned unspent.
Multiple speakers thanked the board for recognizing their petition to join the MEDEA (Mount Diablo Educators Association) union; they said they hoped recognition would help secure higher pay and job protections. Speakers asked the board to pause cuts or layoffs in adult‑education ESL programs until a full budget review or audit addressed the teachers’ concerns.
No formal action was taken on the public comments at the meeting.
