Dr. Karen Salmon said Thursday she would not reveal what specific positions were eliminated.
The school system gave a general outline of the cuts in a press release. The 18 positions being eliminated include one senior staff administrator, 5.5 mid-level administrators, 4.5 support staffers and seven instructional staffers.
Instructional positions include teachers; support staff includes maintenance, transportation and secretaries; and mid-level administration positions include school principals, assistant principals and school managers.
The cuts account for 2 percent of instructional staff, 3 percent of the support staff and 10 percent of mid-level administration, with salaries and benefits for those posts totaling more than five percent of the operating budget.
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That is what WCBOE needs to do as opposed to getting rid of on-site deputies. Administration positions suck up the most money, and contribute the least to the teaching of the children. I also believe the WCBOE staff itself needs a trimming, certainly you can eliminate a handful of positions which will put the entire Board of Ed on a better fiscal standing, again without negatively impacting students.
They really aren't getting rid of anyone. Just shifting people around and eliminating unfilled positions on paper. They may let a couple of people go. Smoke and mirrors.
The WCBOE is doing the same type of thing. For instance, Bob Carlisle is the supervisor of ELL and Title 1. He is retiring and they are not hiring anyone to fill his position. They are spreading the work to other supervisors at the BOE. Some staff have also retired and their positions are not being filled as well. The WCBOE has cut 5 to 6 million last year and are expected to cut 7 million this year coming up. So, don't act like the schools are not cutting their budget. You 9:02, are speaking from ignorance, as most do on here who just assume their is so much waste at the WCBOE. The County Council just wants the schools to feel the pain and won't be satisfied until they are operating on a bare bones budget. Unfortunately it is the the students and teachers who will ultimately feel the pain.
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