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Teachers and parents urge Salem School Committee to preserve family engagement facilitators amid FY27 budget cuts
Summary
At a public hearing on the FY27 Salem Public Schools budget, teachers, family engagement facilitators and parents warned that cuts and plans to centralize family engagement positions would harm multilingual families, reduce in-school supports and risk losing roles funded on temporary grants.
Salem — At a public hearing on the FY27 Salem Public Schools budget, teachers, family engagement facilitators and parent leaders urged the School Committee to avoid cutting or centralizing family engagement facilitator roles that they said are essential to supporting multilingual families and maintaining student attendance.
Ann Berman, president of the Salem Teachers Union and a teacher at Bates Elementary School, told the committee many positions in the budget have been moved onto grant lines and warned those jobs could vanish when grants expire. “A lot of positions were put onto a grant line … I'm concerned about what happens when the grant goes away,” Berman said, urging the district and community to plan now and to coordinate with unions and families around the…
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