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School board approves 2025-26 staffing formula; district to fund school data clerks centrally
Summary
The board approved the 2025-26 staffing allocations, including moving school data clerks to district-funded positions, lowering kindergarten ratios, adding dean positions at turnaround schools, and consolidating New Horizons into Rosenwald oversight.
Bay County School Board members on April 8 approved the district's staffing formula for the 2025-26 school year, a package of changes district leaders said will standardize administrative staffing, protect kindergarten class-size limits and free school-based dollars by centralizing school data clerk funding.
Superintendent McQueen (identified in meeting discussion) and his staff described the proposal as an attempt to "right-size" allocations after observing variation across similar schools. The plan moves school data clerks from individual school budgets to a district-funded, centrally paid position because the district relies on school data clerks for required student data reporting. District staff…
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