San Antonio ISD is eliminating jobs to accommodate the wage increases with more financial cuts expected in the future.
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Those eliminations are not a reduction in force, or a layoff, like the district underwent in 2018. Unlike that situation, many of the positions eliminated were already vacant, and some affected by the cuts were offered other open positions. Officials say the cuts are just the first step, with other strategies required in the near future to remain financially viable.
“We really didn’t scale back on operations per se,” she said. “Some folks ended up doing more than perhaps they were, some folks ended up having revised job descriptions, but any critical and important business operations, really, were not compromised, we just started to scale back.” “It allows us a greater cushion between our middle and high school time … whereas before it was too tight to have one driver service a middle and … a high school,” he said. “It would have required us to do two drivers.”Other positions, like the assistant superintendent of bilingual instruction, have remained vacant for the last year, according to Superintendent Jaime Aquino.
“At the superintendents’ level, it was just, this is what we need to do, and this is why, and at the department level, it was more a matter of how it was going to be implemented,” she said. The San Antonio Alliance Union lauded the massive raise, which was given early in the budget season, giving SAISD an edge when hiring teachers — a high need for districts across the city.
“This was a way of giving principals autonomy over the allocations that they have, knowing that allocations were changing,” she said. “We were having to right size, we’re having to make sure that we’re not funding campuses exactly the same way, regardless of the number of the students they have.” A group of librarians advocated for their jobs during an SAISD board meeting in March. Dozens of librarian positions have been eliminated as the district seeks to cut costs.Multiple families implored the board to intervene in the decision to eliminate the job of a librarian at Hawthorne Academy, Bonnye Cavazos.One Hawthorne student called Cavazos “the heart of the school.”
Without substantial funding, more painful decisions will have to be made. Trustee Patti Radle said those decisions wouldn’t be necessary if the state were to adequately fund the districts. That soft landing should keep the district from having to dip into the general fund balance, which is like a savings account for school districts, in the immediate future.
Recent conversations in Harlandale and South San Antonio have demonstrated the difficult and emotional process school closures could present. Aquino said he was watching those conversations and recently took Central Office staff, parents, union members and principals to visit Jefferson County in Colorado, where 16 schools are closing in response to declining enrollment. The visit was to learn how they are navigating the process, as the district starts to formulate a plan, he said.
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