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Board authorizes preliminary layoff notices for certificated and classified positions
Summary
After a lengthy discussion about enrollment forecasts, position control and alternatives, the board approved resolutions to issue preliminary layoff notices for 10 certificated-equivalent credential areas and 32 classified positions; staff emphasized these are preliminary notices driven by seniority and legal timelines.
The San Francisco Board of Education approved a set of resolutions that authorize district staff to issue preliminary layoff notices under the state-mandated notice timelines. The actions move the district into the next step of a legally required process while staff continue to refine enrollment projections and seek additional funding.
District staff asked the board to authorize notices covering: 10 certificated-equivalent reductions by credential area (listed in staff slides as 2 single-subject art, 2 single-subject music, and 6 head-counselor reductions) and 32 classified-position reductions that include multiple paraeducator classifications. "We are requesting to issue preliminary layoff notices to 10 total certificated employees. 2 single subject art, 2 single subject music, and 6 counselors," said a district HR presenter, explaining these are reductions in positions required to balance projected enrollments and allocations.
Staff repeatedly clarified the notices are preliminary and seniority-driven; actual layoffs depend on resignations, retirements, leaves and later decisions. The board approved the certificated resolution on a roll-call vote (6 yes, 1 no) and approved the parallel classified-item resolution with the same recorded vote pattern on the subsequent item.
Board members pressed staff about whether position-control improvements and application counts would reduce the number of notices; staff said the district's position-control accuracy is markedly better than the prior year and that the number of preliminary notices is much lower than last year's 298-notice list. Commissioners asked for disaggregated data, clearer budget assumptions and written follow-up on how projected enrollment and state funding assumptions shaped the PKS list.
