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Trustees weigh school consolidation, staff cuts and reserves as shortfall looms
Summary
Trustees began a structured debate on options to bring the district back into balance, including school consolidation, staff reductions, selling underused facilities and other cost‑savings. Administration pledged detailed cost and consolidation analyses before any action.
Board discussion shifted from audit acceptance to a broad review of budget reduction options and potential consolidations after presentations on capacity and staffing ratios.
Superintendent Alvarado and staff presented FTE allocations by budget code and showed how post‑pandemic student needs (special education, social‑emotional supports, remedial instruction) increased staffing in certain categories. The staff analysis compared ratios to earlier years and identified roughly 36–60 FTEs that would differ from pre‑pandemic benchmarks depending on the baseline year used.
Trustees and members of the…
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