40 DISTRICT POSITIONS MAY BE CUT BILINGUAL POSTS MOST AT RISK.Byline: Kathleen Sweeney Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. other ways to cut $1 million from next year's budget, the Newhall School Board will vote tonight whether to lay off 40 employees - its largest staff reduction since faced with financial shortfall. The board will consider cutting three dozen instructional assistants - 26 bilingual, nine instructional, and one English as a Second Language - along with two equipment operators, one office assistant and one library media coordinator. The mostly part-time positions would save the district about $300,000 as it looks for ways to offset a reduction in state funding to year-round schools Year-Round School is the operation of educational institutions on a calendar-system that tracks students into class schedules throughout the entire calendar year. A primary motivation is that higher student throughput is accomplished via more effective scheduling of school . ``This is not the end yet, but we are getting very close,'' Marc Winger wing·er n. Sports A player who plays wing, as in hockey or soccer. winger Noun Sport a player positioned on a wing Noun 1. , Newhall District superintendent District Superintendent may be:
The bilingual assistants are taking the brunt brunt n. 1. The main impact or force, as of an attack. 2. The main burden: bore the brunt of the household chores. of the hit since the district began upgrading the program about a year ago after the voters approved Proposition 227 in 1998, which requires all students to be taught in English. More teachers are receiving credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. to teach Spanish-speaking students, eliminating the need for the aides, Winger said. However, aides still will help in the classroom and in communicating with parents. ``It was a big district expenditure that had become out of date,'' Winger said. School officials told those employees in January to begin seeking employment before the start of the new school year June 30. The cuts add to an already long list of reductions. The district had previously cut full-time counseling positions, a management position, three custodial positions and one half of nursing services. The largest piece of the budget comes from a 10 percent salary increase for teachers last fall, squeezing the budget tight, Winger said. District figures show 85 percent of revenues go to employee salary and benefits - nearly $33 million for the 2001-02 school year. It also eliminated $200,000 for conferences and computer replacements, and trimmed the music program. The district eliminated one kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be teacher, relying on two teachers to assist each other with morning and afternoon classes. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Bilingual assistant Soledad Kline provides help to a student at the homework center after school at Newhall Elementary. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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