Presenter Rosenbaum outlines 2025–26 rightsizing staffing plan; district says few layoffs expected

Presenter Rosenbaum briefed the Euclid City School Board on a preliminary "rightsizing" staffing plan for the 2025–26 school year, saying the district will shift positions across schools to match student enrollment, program demand and special-education needs. No vote was taken at the meeting; Rosenbaum invited board follow-up questions in the days ahead.

Why it matters: The plan proposes building-level changes, program adjustments and position reassignments that affect class offerings and intervention capacity across the district. Rosenbaum emphasized the process will use retirements, licensing checks, seniority lists and bid-day procedures before any personnel changes are finalized, and he said he did not anticipate many — if any — employees losing their jobs if licensing and reclassification proceed as expected.

Details of the plan: Rosenbaum said class-size targets are set at 20 for kindergarten, 22 for grades 1–5, 22 for middle-school team classes and 24 for high-school classes. He noted intervention caseloads and learning-center capacities are governed by state rules and program needs.

At the elementary level, the presentation lists specific changes by school: Arbor would lose one first-grade teacher, gain a fifth-grade teacher and add a general intervention specialist (and absorb a title-teacher retirement); Bluestone would gain a fourth-grade teacher, lose a general intervention specialist and record a title-teacher retirement; Shoreview would lose a first-grade teacher and record several retirements and a resignation; and the Early Learning Village (ELV) would add first- and second-grade teachers, eliminate two third-grade classrooms, add three autism learning centers and reduce one ED learning center.

At the middle-school level, Rosenbaum said Euclid Middle School would reduce one career counselor and several content positions (social studies, science, English) and one ED learning center while retaining math and ELA Tier 2/3 supports through existing essentials positions.

At the high-school level, Rosenbaum described multiple CTE and instructional changes: reducing a CTE counselor and several CTE roles, expanding the criminal-justice program from a senior-only offering back into a two-year program, phasing out the education-profession CTE pathway and noting several retirements and position eliminations. He also corrected a typo in the presented materials regarding a mathematics position that should be removed from the documents.

Process and safeguards: Rosenbaum said the rightsizing review is collaborative — involving principals, student services, curriculum and bargaining units (ETA) — and that retirements and vacancies will often be used to realign staffing rather than displace current teachers. "With all of these changes, I don't foresee that many people, if any, will actually lose their job with the district," Rosenbaum said.

Early Learning Village third grade: A board member asked why the ELV is eliminating third grade after prior communications indicated expansion. A different board member responded that recruitment letters years earlier had said the program would include third grade; that statement should not have been made. The response explained the district intends ELV to serve pre-K through second grade and to allow the currently enrolled third-graders to complete the year, with some students returning to other neighborhood elementaries to balance enrollments.

Next steps: Rosenbaum reiterated that no decision or vote was on the agenda that night and that the board could submit follow-up questions in the coming days as the district refines projections and finalizes staffing lists based on licensing and seniority processes.