BSD Considers Teacher Layoffs

Come the 2012-2013 school year, nearly 15 Burlingame Elementary School employees may find themselves without a job.

Due to state budget cuts, BSD officials are looking at several staff reductions throughout the district, including 7.5 kindergarten through sixth-grade full-time employee positions.

Under state law, districts must inform teachers by March 15 if they will be laid off. However, numbers of employees actually laid off are often altered before the final deadline of May 15. Even after that, teachers can be brought back over the summer once California legislators finalize the state budget.

BSD’s plan also calls for the elimination of physical education, music specialist, counselor and various specialist positions.

School board members will vote on the staff reductions Tuesday night.

Members will also hold a public hearing on the initial bargaining proposals between the Burlingame School District and the Burlingame Education Association and hear a presentation on a new bond measure for Burlingame.

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