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E-mail StoryKern's largest school districts voting on job cuts today
| Friday, Mar 7 2008 6:49 PM
Last Updated: Monday, Mar 10 2008 10:09 AM
Boards of the Kern High School District and Bakersfield City School District, the county’s largest school districts by student population, both will meet Monday to vote on notifying teachers of possible layoffs.
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KHSD, facing $24 million in cuts, has estimated dropping 120 jobs: 90 teachers, seven counselors, eight managers and 15 other staff members. But those numbers could drop as jobs are shuffled into two new high schools and as other cost-saving measures are implemented.
The district, which serves 37,000 students, will meet Monday morning while its employees are still at work.
The Bakersfield City School District, which stands to lose $19 million, will meet that evening.
The elementary district, with more than 25,000 students, may eliminate three administrators and an undisclosed number of teachers and staff.
Fruitvale School District, a 3,100-student elementary district in the northwest, will meet Tuesday but an agenda has not yet been released.
While pink slips arrive in the mail next week, they are not final notices and teachers can be called back if circumstances improve.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in January proposed 10 percent cuts across the state to combat a now-projected $16 billion budget shortfall, including a $4.4 billion cut to education funding.
The final budget will not be complete for several months but districts must make decisions about notifying teachers and administrators by March 15 that they may not have jobs next year.