Everett schools may slash 140 jobs, shutter virtual academy
EVERETT — Dozens of teachers, administrators and paraeducators would lose their jobs and an online academy for students shut down under a cost-cutting plan approved by leaders of Everett Public Schools on Tuesday.
As many as 142 full-time positions would be eliminated, including elementary and secondary teachers, in the school board’s blueprint for overcoming a looming $28 million budget deficit next school year.
On a 5-0 vote, the board adopted the Reduced Educational Program. The action clears the way for Superintendent Ian Saltzman to begin preparing for possible job reductions, a process requiring negotiations with employees covered under collective bargaining agreements.
“We’re affecting real people with these decisions,” school board member Andrew Nicholls said. “None of us are taking that lightly.”
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