Anchor Bay Schools to Lay Off Teachers, Support Staff
Faced with a looming $8-million shortfall, Anchor Bay School District expects to lay off a total of 35 teachers, paraprofessionals and support staff in early July.
In addition to the staff cuts, the district will implement kindergarten changes in the upcoming school year and merge elementary schools to create a second early childhood center.
"We want to protect the classroom as much as we can and this hasn't been easy for any of us," a visibly choked-up Superintendent Leonard Woodside said during the Wednesday night board of education meeting in Middle School North .
A couple hundred district employees and concerned parents were eager to learn how they and their children would be affected by the changes, asking questions about who will lose their jobs and how daily education and programs would be impacted.
District officials said the estimated 35 layoffs have not been specifically determined but teachers, four-hour paraprofessionals and support staff like secretaries and custodians are likely to be among them, Woodside said after the meeting.
School representatives have been in bargaining sessions with unions and layoff notices are supposed to be sent July 8.
Kindergarten Changes
Besides layoffs, the district plans on saving money by altering its kindergarten program for the 2011-12 school year.
Children will be assigned to their home schools for full-day classes, unless they opt into another school. Once in their class, they will be taught by a regular kindergarten teacher half the day and a qualified paraprofessional the other half of the day.
Half-day kindergarten students will no longer be bused to school. Kindergarten students will also ride the bus with first through fifth grades, which was done before for morning classes en route to school and afternoon classes on the way home. The mid-day transportation previously had just kindergarten students, according to Lighthouse Principal Tom Huber.
Sugarbush Elementary Principal Marie Dewitte told the board that third-grader studies have shown students who went to half- or full-day kindergarten are at the same academic level. She also said that paraprofessionals and teachers will participate in shared lesson planning for consistency and similar learning experiences.
Dewitte also spoke of communication with parents about the changes concerning transportation.
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