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Parents and teachers urge board to protect Mandarin immersion and keep teaching positions amid proposed cuts
Summary
A parent urged the board to revisit the district's plan to stop funding a Mandarin-immersion curriculum consultant and asked the board to invite program leads to present; the teachers' union warned that proposed budget cuts could leave 17 teacher positions unfilled and push class size to legal maximums.
At the start of the meeting, a parent who had been introduced by the board identified herself as Megan O'Reilly Green and asked trustees to review contracts and hear program staff before taking funding decisions that could affect the Mandarin immersion program.
"I'm formally requesting that you...please invite Winnie and Pearl to present at a meeting, justification for why Pearl is an integral part of our team,"…
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