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Board hears HR report: lowest vacancy rates, 190 new hires and progress toward class‑size caps
Summary
Human resources reported the district employs about 6,807 staff, hired 190 new employees this year, and is nearing negotiated hard caps on class size for 2025–26; district leaders highlighted substitute pool health and paraeducator apprenticeship and residency programs to grow local staffing.
District human resources briefed the board on staffing, substitutes and efforts to grow local teacher pipelines, reporting historically low vacancies in several categories and steps to reach negotiated class‑size caps.
An HR presenter told the board the district has just over 3,500 certificated employees and a little over 3,200 classified employees — a total of roughly 6,807 staff — and that the spring/summer hiring cycle produced about 190 new hires for the district. “We are at the lowest vacancy rate we’ve ever had in terms of our special education paraeducator,” the presenter said, thanking HR colleagues and…
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