School budget discussed

The school district budget and the security of teacher positions was again top in everyone's mind at Tuesday's meeting of the Levy County School Board. In a non-agenda item early in the meeting, Levy County Education Association President Cindy Roach asked the board why, if the coming year's budget was only 1.09 percent less than last year's, the district had not moved to rehire some of the 21 veteran teachers who recently lost their jobs due to budget cuts.

“In the second semester of the 2008-2009 school year, we were able to cut some $600,000 without losing any teachers,” she said.

However, she said, the district had created four new district-level positions, an inappropriate decision for an administration concerned with maintaining quality education in the face of losing large numbers of classroom teachers.

Superintendent Robert Hastings responded, stating that the four district-level positions described by Roach were not new positions, but rather new job descriptions of existing positions.

“We have actually reduced positions at the district level, as well as reducing salaries by $646,000,” he said.

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