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243 jobs are cut out of the draft budget. It has 21 million dollars less revenue. And Superintendent Karen Gaborik is already dealing with a $6,000,000 loss from the school year we are in now.
“It’s a budget like I have never experienced in my entire career. Like everything else this year! The magnitude of cuts are beyond what I’ve experienced.”
Pandemic enrollment is the biggest factor in the revenue drop. Gaborik says the district lost 1,962 students since March 2020. They enrolled in homeschool programs, private schools or dropped out.
Elementary students returned to in-person learning last week, (Jan. 19) middle school students returned this week, and high schoolers next week. The district’s current count of in-person, e-learning and home learning students is about 11,000.
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But the board’s plan
does not require schools to absolutely follow the CDC’s or the state’s Smart Start guidelines for masking, social distancing and hygiene. It asks schools to meet those guidelines only “to the best of their abilities.”
That has the Fairbanks Education Association president, Sandra Ryan, concerned about the safety of teachers who could be exposed to the disease.
“There is just language that needs to be put into place and remind us of some of the great work we’ve already done with the district on protocols in place, that, unfortunately with the current directive from the school board, we’ll be hard-pressed to maintain them.”
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