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Board weighs cutting a PE position; staff says two teachers could cover district with scheduling trade-offs
Summary
The board debated not backfilling a PE retirement and running the district’s PE program with two teachers (about 15 classrooms each across 31 classrooms); staff warned that scheduling would likely reduce direct PE minutes and require classroom teachers to supplement time to meet mandated minutes.
District staff described a scenario in which two PE teachers would serve roughly 31 classrooms districtwide — about 15 classes per PE teacher — and said that would likely reduce the minutes of direct specialist instruction and require classroom teachers to supplement PE time to meet the 200-minute K–8 requirement.
"So that would look like, instead of having a PE teacher at each school site, we would have 2 PE teachers district wide... They would have about 15 classrooms each," the staff member said, while flagging that the district would need to work on scheduling and that some PE minutes might shift to classroom teachers. Board members asked staff to develop a more detailed plan before permanently eliminating the backfilled position.
