Amador County – The Amador County Unified School District Board of Trustees in a special meeting Wednesday will consider notifications for laying off 16 teachers in the school district to start the next school year due to a decline in enrollment and average daily attendance.
Potential layoffs, beginning no later than the start of the 2012-2013 school year, include 9 grade school teachers, 2 junior high teachers, 4 high school teachers, an alternative education principal, and a part-time athletic director position.
Any employees that are to be laid off must be notified by no later than March 15. Trustees will consider a resolution with the “intention to dismiss certificated employees of certain particular kinds of certificated services for declining average daily attendance for the 2012-2013 school year,” according to the agenda. The agenda noted that “it will be necessary to decrease the number of certificated employees in the District by the equivalent of 16.33 full-time positions for the ensuing 2012-2013 school year … because of such reduction or discontinuance of services.”
Nancy Gamache, executive director of District personnel, submitted a draft resolution with recommended positions to layoff. It included five K-6 grade “self contained classroom teachers,” four K-6 “response to intervention teachers,” one 7-8 grade math teacher, one 7-8 grade social science teacher, and four high school teachers of the subjects of vocational education/auto mechanics, physical science, social science and counseling, plus a 1/3rd time athletic director position. The draft resolution also included the elimination of one full-time alternative education principal position.
Trustees could also consider a resolution to “specify criteria used in determining the order of termination of certificated employees who first rendered paid service on the same date,” and notes that the governing board of the ACUSD “anticipates that it will be necessary to terminate the services of certificated employees” at the start of the next school year.
The resolution gives points per credential and per year of experience in the district, years outside the district in the same employment, and other credentials and degrees. It also contains a “tie-breaking procedure,” and notes that if “common day hires have equal qualifications” based on the criteria, points will be given for chairing a department, being a “teacher in charge,” or being a tutor or support provider.
The “employees with the fewest points shall be terminated before employees with more points,” and in cases of a tie with the criteria, “the District will then break ties by utilizing a lottery.”
The school board special meeting starts with a closed session at 5:30 p.m. and regular session at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 in the Supervisors chambers in Jackson.
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