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Scottsdale board debates administrator staffing rubric as budget shortfall raises prospect of assistant principal reductions
Summary
The Scottsdale Unified School District governing board spent extended time discussing a negotiated administrator employment agreement that includes staffing ratios that could reduce assistant principal (AP) allocations at five schools as part of deficit-mitigation planning; no final board action was taken on the agreement.
The Scottsdale Unified School District governing board discussed a proposed administrator employment agreement and a staffing rubric that district negotiators say would use enrollment-based ratios to allocate assistant principals, a change administrators say responds to declining enrollment and budget pressure.
The conversation, which the board began in an item titled “administrators employment agreement for the 2024–25 school year,” centered on a rubric tied to 40th-day attendance counts and a provision that would present staffing changes “as an option for discussion and consensus with the IBN team” in the event of fiscal reductions. Board President Donna Lewis and multiple board members pressed staff and association representatives on how the ratio would work in practice and which schools would be affected.
Board member Amy Carney said the board…
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