535 Layoff Notices to Be Sent by SFUSD (edit this)
The San Francisco Board of Education announced that there is a projected $49 million budget hole for 08-09 due to state education budget cuts.
Layoff notices will be sent to 140 administrators and 395 teachers by March 15. President Sanchez noted that this would be 10% of the district’s teachers. But since many of the administrators who will receive layoff notices have seniority rights as teachers and principals, there will be a great deal of bumping of teachers and principals.
For teachers, the breakdown is:
173 elementary school teachers
124 middle school teachers
98 high school teachers
Those receiving layoff notices include:
-25 Elementary School Principals
-7 Middle School Principals
-12 High School Principals
-10 Assistant Elementary School Principals
-8 Assistant Middle School Principals
-19 Assistant High School Administrators
-5 Site Administrators for Child Development Centers
-16 Visual/Performing Art teachers for Star Schools
-4 Computer Technology Integration Specialists
-10 Reading Instructional Teachers
-29 Instructional Reform Facilitators
-1 Elementary Arts teacher
-1 Bilingual (Korean) Teacher
-5 Elementary Music teachers
-8 each of kindergarten, first and second grade teachers
-20 each of fourth and fifth grade teachers
-2 middle school art teacher
-17 each of middle school English teachers and social studies teachers
-20 each of 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade Language Arts/Social Studies Core
-26 high school English teachers
-33 high school Social Studies teachers
-5 high school art teachers
-2 continuation school teachers
-2 high school industrial art teachers
Here is a partial list of the 140 administrators receiving layoff notices. Almost all have either been principals and/or teachers at SFUSD and thus would be able to bump a more junior teacher/principal.
Of the 140 administrators receiving layoff notices:
-Associate Superintendent-Academic and Professional Development
-Associate Superintendent-School Operations and Instructional Support
-Associate Superintendent Student Support Services
-All three Assistant Superintendents of Elementary Schools (Davide Celora, Linda Llevano, Cheryl Lee)
-Associate Superintendent of Middle Schools (Joan Hepperle)
-Associate Superintendent of High Schools (Margaret Chu)
-Director of High School Operations
-Associate Superintendent-Teacher and Learning
-Executive Director-Educational Placement Center (Darlene Lim)
-Executive Director-Human Resources: Certificated Operations
-Director-Human Resources: Certificated Staffing and Recruitment (yes, a different position from the above position)
-Executive Director-Labor Relations (Tom Ruiz)
-Executive Director-Office of Equity Assurance (Sandi Lam)
-Executive Director-Reform and Accountability
-Executive Director-Special Education Services (Deborah McKnight)
-Director of SELPA-Special Education Services (David Waxman)
-Director of Charter/Small School By Design (Not Filled Yet)
-Director of Child Development Program
-Director of County and Court School Operations
-Director of Multilingual Programs
-Supervisor of Multilingual Programs (different position from the director)
-Program Administrator for Multilingual Programs (yet another position)
-Director of Pupil Services
-Program Administrator-Pupil Services
-Director of School Health Programs (Meyla Ruwin)
-Supervisor for School Health Programs
-Progam Administrator-School Health Programs
-Supervisor of Academics and Professional Development
-Supervisor of Human Resources: Teacher Support and Development
-Supervisor of Textbooks, Libraries and Media Services
-3 Program Administrators for Pupil Services
-2 Program Adminstrators for the School to Career Program
-3 Program Administrators for Research, Planning and Accountability
Under the requirements of the Rainy Day fund, the funds can only be released if there is impending layoffs. It is hoped that the City will provide $30 million from the Rainy Day fund to stop many of the layoffs.

February 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pm e
Instead of laying off badly needed teachers, the BOE should take a serious look at the overpriced, underqualified legal councel. For every lawyer gone, they could hire 3 teachers. What is especially rediculous is the outrageous sums paid to outside legal consultant “experts”. These so-called expert consultants have lost sp ed cases in a climate that has a 90% win ratio for districts. If the district had well trained teachers, they would not have to waste tax dollars on lawyers!
February 27th, 2008 at 3:12 pm e
hi - as one of the people who will be getting a layoff notice, but have not yet, I am wondering how this list became public and if it is complete. I don’t see nurses or learning support professionals on here.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm e
Nurses and LSPs are funded through Prop H. I don’t think they will be as affected by the budget cuts.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:05 am e
The list of those who are affected by the layoffs was given at the BOE meeting on Tuesday. So it’s public record. Under the UESF contract, SFUSD needs to give certificated employees notice by March 15. Classified employees will get layoff notices closer to June.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:51 am e
Without the layoff notices going out the 30 million dollars available through Supervisor Ammiano’s proposed rainy day fund could not be released. I do not think these layoffs will actually take place but without the paperwork we would be nowhere.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:50 pm e
What was the (discretionary) budget for adopting new subject-area curriculum? It time for a new Math adoption, but Elementary school Harcourt Math is working, more or les, so why change? Maybe just buy an addendum of revised lessons. The district should wait to purchase a new publisher’s curriculum. Furthermore, with the exception of Social Studies, why is it necessary to purchase a new adoption every 7 years anyway? One exception: dump CPM now!
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm e
Lisa, when I read the first part of your post I was thinking “ooh, she must not know about CPM if she thinks there’s no need for a new curriculum.” I guess you do.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm e
Speaking of curriculum..When is the district going to buy proper reading programs and train Sp ed teachers to use Orton Gillinham and Lindamood bell programs to teach reading to dyslexic children. They make up the biggest sp ed population yet no one is qualified to teach them. Sp ed masters program do not teach this material. The kids are being cheated..no wonder reading scores suck for disabled children. No one is trained to teach them unless the teachers goes out and learns a program on their own dime.
Yet the district keeps spending $$ on reading programs for reg ed students and using them on LD students and wonder why they don’t work!!
The district doesn’t do thweir “homework” on the so-called research of these programs either. For example, Voyager which was bought by sp ed this past year and implemented in middle schooles. It only has “proven research” to work with reg ed kindergarteners!
Who wastes our precious funds on this crap?
March 17th, 2008 at 9:53 pm e
Will day to day substitutes be fired? I’m a day to day substitute.
Jess zepeda jr.