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GBEA vice president warns board that budget cuts threaten building-level staff
Summary
GBEA Vice President Tracy Jackson told the board budget cuts could lead to building-level staff reductions and larger class sizes, and urged the district to prioritize resources for supports at the school level rather than adding administrators.
Tracy Jackson, a second-grade teacher at Hall Elementary and vice president of the Gresham-Barlow Education Association (GBEA), addressed the board to express staff concerns about the budget outlook.
Jackson said staff are "experiencing apprehension as they reach the end of the year, with budget cuts that threaten students and will fall to the overburdened staff." She argued that "cutting staff at the building level while adding administrators elsewhere furthers these problems and will result in higher class sizes and more disruption." Jackson asked the board to direct resources to building-level supports to maintain student services and instructional quality.
The board listened and acknowledged the request; no formal action was taken on staffing or budget allocations at the May 7 meeting.
