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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Personnel Reductions in the Santa Barbara School Districts
Last night the board of education made personnel reductions in particular kinds of services, triggering layoff notices to elementary and secondary teachers. Reduction in particular kinds of services occur due to a variety of reasons such as declining enrollment, loss of funding for special programs, loss of staffing due to returning interdistrict transfer students in the elementary district to their district of origin, potential class size increase, and possible Tier III reductions based on the state budget, and other possible budget cuts in April.
The board of education had to take these actions to protect the districts’ fiscal solvency due to the state budget’s precarious dependence on the fate of initiatives that will be decided by the voters in May. Whether the state ballot propositions pass will not be known until the May 19 state election.