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SF school district to mail final layoff notices after conceptual UESF agreement reduces cuts
Summary
Superintendent Carlos Garcia said a late-night conceptual agreement with United Educators of San Francisco will allow the district to rescind roughly half of earlier layoff notices; the board adopted final layoff notices reducing planned certificated position eliminations to 348.72 FTEs but said the number could fall further if the union ratifies the agreement.
Superintendent Carlos Garcia announced that San Francisco Unified School District negotiators reached a "joint conceptual agreement" with the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) shortly before the board meeting and said the deal would allow the district to substantially reduce planned certificated layoffs.
Garcia told the board that the district had earlier issued 701 notices recommending non-reelection for certificated personnel and that staff and the board would move tonight to reduce the number of final notices to about 348.72 full‑time equivalent positions. "We negotiated till 2 in the morning last night with UESF," Garcia said, and "we're gonna bring that number down to 349 people." He added the district's longer-term goal — conditioned on ratification by UESF — is to lower layoffs to "a little bit under 200" teachers.
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