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Board approves superintendent's strategic resource alignment plan to close $6.3M gap; parents urge protections for IEP support and guest teachers
Summary
The board approved the superintendent's strategic resource alignment recommendations, which include district-office restructurings (about 3.75 certificated-management FTEs and 1 classified FTE) and school-based adjustments that together are projected to save roughly $6.3 million; parents and principals urged preserving IEP administrative support and site guest-teacher continuity.
The Redwood City School Board voted Feb. 4 to adopt Superintendent Baker's strategic resource alignment recommendations, a package of district-office and school-level reductions intended to address a structural budget shortfall driven by declining enrollment and the end of pandemic-era funding.
Baker told the board the district must "align staff, services, and operations with a smaller organization" and recommended reclassifying the deputy superintendent to assistant superintendent, eliminating certain director/coordinator positions and streamlining operations. He said the district-office actions generate approximately $3,500,000 in ongoing savings. The school-based recommendations—mainly reductions by attrition, classroom…
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