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Antioch Unified School District Layoffs to Impact 46 Classified Employees, 4 Admin Positions Reassigned

by ECT
Antioch Unified School District

On Friday, the Antioch Unified School District announced in their School Board Agenda that in an effort to save $1.85 million, they are proposing a reduction in Classified Employees. The District is also reassigning four administrative positions.

The move would reduce a total of 29 Full-time positions, impacting 46 employees (including salary, statutory costs, and benefits/cash in lieu) for the 2020-21 school year.  The District is required to provide a 60-day notice.

ClassificationNumber of Full Time Equivalent Positions
Curriculum Coordinator1.00
District Attendance Liaison-Bilingual1.00
Instruction Assistant6.192
Instruction Assistant, Bilingual1.752
Library Media Technician I5.00
Office Assistant – Classified Human Resources1.00
Print Shop Records and Information Technician1.00
Registar I4.406
Registar II3.00
Registar III2.00
Student Field Assistant1.00
Student Monitor0.438
Warehouse Worker Driver1.00
Tottal FTE28.788

 

Also on the agenda in the Consent Calendar (Item G), the District will be reassigning 4 administrative positions which will save the District more than $700k to their budget.

  • Coordinator, Ed Services to Principal (site TBD)
  • Principal, Sutter Elementary to Counselor (Site TBD)
  • Coordinator, Ed Services to VP Elementary (Site TBD)
  • Coordinator, Ed Services to Math (Site TBD)

According to Superintendent Stephanie Anello, the District was already facing cuts, but with the budget proposal by the Governor, those cuts became much greater.

“Public education was already under-funded so it was devastating last week when the largest funding cuts announced by Governor Newsom in his May budget were to public education. The cuts that school districts across the state will need to make to remain solvent are draconian and heartbreaking. I am personally devastated as I have worked in this District for 22-years and feel a deep sense of connection to many of those affected,” stated Anello.

The layoffs come as the Antioch Education Association (teachers union) is seeking a 2% raise which they have been negotiation on for several months prior to the economic impacts of COVID-19.

According to the School District, this is just the first set of layoffs scheduled as they are anticipating somewhere between $16-20 million in reductions due to Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal–which could change should the Federal Government bailout the State of California.

The California Teachers Association has already called on Congress to pass the HERO’s Act which would help provide $4.4 billion in funding for education. They also stated Schools Cannot Physically Reopen Safely with the Funding Level Proposed in the May Revision.

The Antioch Unified School District School Board meeting is being held on May 27 at 7:00 pm and is available online. Click here for more info

On Friday, we released a podcast where we chatted with Josh Isenbarger who is the president of the CSEA in Antioch for the Antioch Unified school District (Classified Employees). Due to budget cuts, they are anticipating layoffs all while leadership at the teachers union is requesting a 2% raise. Isenbarger highlights how they hope teamwork between all unions can be the priority which would help save jobs.

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3 comments

Low income Antioch Rez May 23, 2020 - 8:04 am

A lot of those jobs didn’t use to come with a paycheck and benefits.Guess it’s time to go back to bringing on volunteer playground monitors. Being able to get kids in trouble and kissing the Principals ass used to be payment enough for those old ladies.
Next up: The yard crews(who mainly just use AUSD equipment to make their own yards nice) who keep the grass around the gofer holes nice. That should save us a few dollars. Just hire a private crew every other week to cut grass.
Cut,cut,cut…but retain the Teachers. Work on reducing the pay of these political appointee Principals.

Frank May 23, 2020 - 5:18 pm

If they really want to cut budget you need to start at the top of the food chain. Administration, Principals and Vice Principals. Better yet just get rid of Newsom and shut down high speed rail and move money into education. Just saying.

Kathy May 27, 2020 - 4:37 pm

Maybe now …
These so called teacher will actually TEACH the children something..
Instead of being a babysitter who send all the work home with the children…
Then alls they do. Hopefully is correct the work….pass or fail they send them through..to the next grade . untill high school and it all catches up with that child that never got Taught anything…

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