The Virginian-Pilot
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The School Board on Thursday unanimously approved a $143 million education budget that includes no layoffs or school closings but cuts deeply into after-school remediation.
The 2010-11 budget, about $7.2 million less than the current spending plan, is now headed to the City Council for consideration. Final adoption by the School Board is scheduled for May.
The plan eliminates three special-education supervisor positions and three new positions - a bus driver and two teachers - proposed by Superintendent Milton Liverman in February. Affected employees will be shifted to other jobs.
It also includes a restructuring of the alternative education program and a significant reduction in part-time pay. A retirement incentive offer is expected to save the division about $1 million.
The budget shifts 20 of 49 positions from federal stimulus grants to state funding. That move will protect those positions - 12 assistant principals, three academic coaches, three lead teachers, one guidance counselor and a supervisor of testing and research - in the next budget cycle, Liverman said.
The board is asking for no change in local funding. However, Liverman said, the division could cut more textbook dollars, reduce its pre-funding of future retirement health benefits, and move positions back to stimulus money if the City Council lowers the local contribution.
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Layoffs
It appears to me that they are laying people off! 3 Special Education Supervisors are about to lose their jobs. There will be a position opening to replace the 3 supervisors positions. The three of them can apply for that position but so can other people. Only one person will get the job meaning either one of them will be chosen for the position and only 2 will lose their job or none will be chosen they will hire someone else at less pay and all three will lose their job.
Sad....our city should step up and fund the schools so that these cuts don't even have to happen. It's not a good time to be without a job! There are no jobs out there to be had that are worth even looking into. When you have a salary like the supervisors do its very hard to find something similar in pay right now.
budget
I wonder how much money they would save if they quit busing kids from all over the place. Elementary students will bused pass 2 schools to a 3rd and they have bus drivers dedicated to 1 kid. The little things that money is being wasted on add up.I do not remember growing up with a lot of pre-k and after school tutoring that was done through the city schools.A lot of these programs are nothing more than daycare to some.
All in all what money they could save with smarter use of their resources could save jobs even if they move them around to areas that need more staff.