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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hardly believe that losing $90,000 is going to make or break a school’s budget especially since it was used for personnel.[/quote]

There are so few flexible staff positions that losing one is a big deal at lots of schools. Also? They are getting bridge funding from the Mayor. When that dries up, they be down another spot or two as well. Also, the Council only funds FoodPrints for T1s currently, so if that’s the garden program referred to, they have to fund it or it’s gone. L-T’s PTO paid $30K+ for FoodPrints last year.[/quote]

Most positions are flexible. [/quote]

Not actually though once you account for the ones you realistically have to have. Schools try to cut classroom teachers where they can, but that’s how you end up with 30 kid 1st grade classes which isn’t awesome either.[/quote]

I mean that actually seems like the definition of flexibility. If a school wants to have three coaches and 30 kids in a 1st grade class, they can do that. They can look at the smallest class and cut a teacher there. They can cut an ELL intervention position.

If you are concerned, go to an LSAT meeting. They are open meetings so anyone is allowed to attend. Budget decisions are happening now because the teachers who serve on the LSATs are off all next week and they are due March 1. So go find out when they are and show up. [/quote]

The point is the loss of a full teaching position ($90K) is not nothing. And I bet the cuts are actually deeper than that. The initial budgets are misleading because of the increases in teacher salaries. Our budget looks like we lost 2 positions, but we lost at least 3.[/quote]

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