There will be up to 10 furlough days in the Jefferson City School System next year as part of a larger plan to cut costs in the system. The days won’t be decided and the calendar set until the city receives its state funds allotment sheet, officials said.
In addition to the furlough days, the Jefferson Board of Education last week approved cutting all elementary and middle school Spanish teaching positions as part of a reduction in force program.
Also as part of the plan, one elementary school counselor position and one kindergarten teaching position will be cut.
These cuts are not all the cuts the system plans to make. Other cuts come in the form of teacher resignations and reassignments.
Among those changes are: Not replacing an empty assistant principal position at Jefferson High School; combining the principal’s position for Jefferson Academy (3-5) and Jefferson Elementary School (Pre-K through 2); and combining some job functions for the assistant principal’s position at the middle school.
The reduction in force plan aims to lessen the impact from the reduction in state funding of $913,500 it experienced between Fiscal Year 2009 and FY 2010. The system is also expecting a further reduction in state funding of $118,650 for FY 2011.
For the full list of employee changes, see the print edition of The Jackson Herald for May 19, 2010.
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