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John O'Connell staff and students urge board to rescind wellness coordinator layoff
Summary
At the May 25 SFUSD board meeting, wellness coordinator Christine Lee and more than a dozen colleagues, students and parents urged the board to rescind her layoff notice, citing long service, program disruption, and disputed seniority calculations; district staff said an administrative-law-judge's ruling upheld the seniority assignment.
Christine Lee, the wellness program coordinator at John O—Connell High School, told the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on May 25 that she received a final layoff notice effective June 30 after the district counted her certificated seniority from November 2008 despite nearly eight years of service in the role.
"I have given my all to building this wonderful school and serving students for nine years," Lee said, describing a classification and seniority dispute she and colleagues say stems from long delays in processing a change from the classified to certificated salary schedule. She told the board she held a people personnel services credential since 2005 and had repeatedly attempted to change…
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