50 cut at Merced schools

03-02-2011

By Doane Yawger/Modesto Bee

Merced City School District board members Tuesday night voted unanimously to cut 50 teaching and assistant principal positions to erase a multimillion-dollar budget deficit. The number of actual jobs lost may be less than 50, considering two dozen teachers may retire this summer and 17 teachers, whose salaries were funded by state and federal grant money that has run out, knew their jobs would end. The cuts are expected to save about $4.4 million. At the 90-minute special session, the five Board of Education members meeting at Cruick-shank Middle School were criticized for not keeping staff cuts away from the classroom and not targeting administrators in the budget-trimming process. (more...)

Also: San Luis Obispo Tribune, Modesto Bee

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