Excited. So, did you get your question answered . Okay, mr. Haney . Yes, so and thank you for answering my questions before. I sort of wanted to zero in because maybe it would be helpful for me to focus on one particular position and so i am kind of understanding how this operates in practice. And so, for the ten positions for Elementary School classrooms in art, so the thinking there is that despite the fact that we are going to get more money and that art is ipriority for our district and we are going to gain an improved fiscal situation next year that we will reduce our total number of art teachers in elementary by ten next year . I mean that would be. What is the likelihood of that . And why is that something that we would sort of make policy around in light of our other priorities and expectations . Bill, san der son overs see that and aprepared to answer. Good evening, commissioners. So realize that these numbers that we turned in and was published and all of the above many days
Many days ago. And it did not just happen this evening. And in light of the fact that we had additional allocations for the pete budget at the end of last week and so the staff is literally working on looking at pete allocations and everything right now this week and so we have to be on the safe side, and put the numbers there. And they may change. When we finish working on the pete allocation budget but we have to get through that process first. In addition, specifically with elementary arts, we have art is a unique situation just as secondary. Science is unique in the fact that art has credentials for a specific discipline. So, for example, you have visual arts and you have a credential and that may cause complications because we dont know which schools are going to request at this point in time so we dont know if they will want an additional one day of music or one day of visual art and a day of drama or what. So we have to wait to get through some of those decisions before we can h
Are so many students, why cant we redistribute the students . Why cant you redistribute students . They are just saying. Like we dont need that many teachers, then why cant we just put the students in their classroom and have the teachers teach them . And then, you know, i would have to put my mission perspective on it. Assuming that is passed. And so, but i do know that the number of sophomores going to junior classes, for instance, it does not always, you know, even as the way that you want it to, you will get the classes with like 8 students in them. So you can redistribute them and you have a choice. You can go above the class size ratio or you can open up a whole other class if i have enough money and peel off of all of those 35 that are in that class and this class with 8 start bringing that class up to a bigger size. If i have enough money to do that. I cant do that for every subject and i cant do that for biology or chemistry or algebra one, and the numbers dont work out perfec
Therefore, the public will be kept apprised of that. Thank you. Commissioner mendoza . I forgot what i was going to say. So, this is always that march stamp that we do. And it is processes con voluted and we work on exceptions which makes zero sense, it is a required time frame that never matches our planning. And looking at you, this is. This is this. You know . And i think that the other added piece that we have to or that we are up against a wall and we need to be caution. And that the out come of that will look like, which we are what now . 6 days away from that or four days away from that . And, we are not feeling like we are on the steady ground despite the prop 30 and some of the other wonderful things and thanks to our voters. I think that it is fair to say that our commitment to labor is to minimize our layoffs as we always try to do every year, year in and year out. And the ininstruction that you get from us is continuing to be just that. Is that we want to minimize it and th