{"id":6975,"date":"2011-04-29T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-school-district-to-cut-110-jobs-from-2011-12-budget\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:05:37","slug":"kent-school-district-to-cut-110-jobs-from-2011-12-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-to-cut-110-jobs-from-2011-12-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School District to cut 110 jobs from 2011-12 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Kent School Board has approved cuts to 110 employees in the 2011-12 district budget because of a loss of federal and state funding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The five-member board approved Wednesday a reduction of teachers, administrators, custodians and other staff as part of an overall $15 million budget reduction plan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“This is a difficult process for everyone,” said district spokesman Chris Loftis in a phone interview. “We’re talking about people’s lives. And the worse news is this is an ongoing process. We’ve had budget reductions a number of years here.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The district must send out reduction in force notices by May 15 to 76 certificated employees scheduled to be cut next school year. That includes teachers, counselors and administrators.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We legally have to notify them by May 15,” Loftis said. “That’s why the board voted on April 27 so we can get the notifications out.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Loftis said the human resources department is in the process to figure out exactly which employees to cut based on seniority and other issues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We know how many, now we have to figure out who,” Loftis said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The cuts include about 31 elementary school teachers, 20 secondary teachers, nine special education teachers, five counselors and four high school assistant principals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An additional 34 classified employees, including transportation, maintenance and central office staff also face layoffs. Those jobs do not legally require official layoff notices from the district.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n