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PVUSD board approves resolutions and issues layoff notices in closed session
Summary
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved resolutions to eliminate classified preschool positions and to reduce certain services for 2025–26, and directed staff to issue March 15 notifications and other layoff notices following closed-session discussion.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Board of Education on Feb. 26 unanimously approved multiple personnel actions after a closed‑session discussion. Board members Eric alria, Sara Dean, Ami Gandhi, Julie Hamill and President Linda Kurt voted yes to adopt Resolution No. 15 to eliminate classified preschool positions (five associate preschool educator hourly positions and five preschool educator positions) “for lack of work and/or lack of funds,” and to adopt Resolution No. 177 to reduce or discontinue particular services for the 2025–26 school year, including one director of teaching and learning, the board reported when it reconvened.
The board also directed the superintendent or designee to issue notices of release and non‑reelection to temporary certificated employees and to send appropriate legal notices, citing Education Code provisions referenced in the staff report. A roll call read a list of employee identification numbers that the district will use for legal notices, and the board announced the roll‑call vote as unanimous.
Separately, the board approved settlement agreements in special‑education matters, including an Office of Administrative Hearings case (OAH No. 2024‑1000630). In each settlement the district agreed to provide student‑related services and the student waived claims against the district; those agreements were approved by unanimous roll call vote.
Superintendent Dr. Serrano told the board earlier in the meeting that the March 15 notification process is a statutory deadline that districts use to notify employees of potential changes to employment status; she emphasized that a March 15 notice does not automatically end employment, and that some employees who receive March 15 notices are subsequently called back depending on enrollment, retirements and other budget factors.
Next steps identified by staff include sending the required statutory notices, attaching the full resolutions to the minutes and posting them on the district website. The board did not debate the specific employee names in open session; the public report used employee identification numbers and referenced the Education Code sections under which notices are issued.
