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SFUSD board approves layoff notices for hundreds of staff, preserves teachers in targeted ‘superintendent zone’
Summary
The San Francisco Unified School District board on Feb. 28 approved four resolutions authorizing notices for layoffs affecting certificated, paraprofessional and early-education staff and adopted seniority tiebreak rules; the board also voted to seek administrative validation of protecting 70 teachers in the superintendent zone.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Feb. 28 authorized staff to issue preliminary layoff notices that could affect hundreds of employees, citing a deepening state budget shortfall and an estimated district shortfall in the tens of millions of dollars.
The board voted to approve four separate resolutions — a reduction in particular kinds of certificated services, a reduction of paraprofessional services, rules for establishing seniority among employees hired on the same date, and elimination of early-education positions — that collectively authorize the superintendent to notify affected staff and to proceed with required hearings and notifications. The motions passed by recorded vote; board leaders said the overall number of full-time-equivalent positions affected across categories is roughly 333 FTE and staff estimated gross savings in the range of $25 million to $35 million depending on final notices and rescissions.
Why it matters: Superintendent Carlos Garcia told the board the decisions are the result of state funding cuts and that the district is ‘‘left with no…
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