Board Votes to Merge Schools, Move Child Center, Cut Top Staff
Posted on: Friday, 10 March 2006, 09:00 CST
By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
Mar. 10--To finance a raise for teachers, Ravenswood City School District voted Thursday night to merge two schools, eliminate assistant principals and relocate its child development center.
The board adopted four budget-cutting measures suggested by Superintendent Maria Meza-De la Vega.
The most controversial has been the proposal to move the San Francisco 49ers Academy, which educates 110 at-risk sixth- through eighth-graders, to the Costano Elementary School site. The move would eliminate one principal position.
Costano parents were not informed about the impending move, the president of the school site council said. She asked after the vote that the board reconsider. Merging the schools is estimated to save about $169,000.
The child development center, which suffers from inadequate parking, will move to the 49ers Academy site. Several parents who frequent the center had pleaded with the board to approve the move.
"Children have to walk in the rain to go to the bathroom," said Maria Oseguera, who contended the center's current location is a health and safety issue.
The trustees have said they had no easy choices for trimming the budget if they were to meet teacher demands for a 5 percent raise. Teachers have been working since July without a contract. An impasse has been declared in negotiations, and the sides are meeting with a state mediator.
"We really need short-term as well as long-term solutions to hire and retain quality teachers," Dorothy Glusker, vice president of the Ravenswood Teachers Association, told the board.
Contact Sharon Noguchi at snoguchi@mercurynews.com or (650) 688-7576.
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