Redondo Beach USD prepares for cuts
40 temporary positions could potentially be cut. Redondo Beach parents and teachers got a surprise in their inbox last week after Superintendent Steven Keller sent out an email outlining the district’s budgetary predicament and underlining the relationship and finite future of forty temporary teachers in the district. “Temporary contracts do not necessitate a March 15 lay-off notification per Education Code,” wrote Keller. “Instead, those contracts, when initially signed, clearly stated a start and end date.” He stressed that there will be no formal lay-off notifications presented to the Board of Education on March 15, and that the school district’s budget is tight and that district and employees must plan for a worst-case budget in the upcoming year. “Developing a 2012-2013 school district budget on an assumption that perhaps new dollars will arrive to our district in November is a gamble,” wrote Keller. “We don’t gamble.” Forty temporary positions including temporary teaching positions and any position that has a specific start and end date may not be renewed for the following school year. All of the positions will be open for re-application or potentially eliminated. Arianne…
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