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Easton School Board Cuts 43 Jobs
Eleven Easton Area School District employees will be furloughed, while the remaining cuts will happen through attrition.
The Easton Area School Board has approved cutting 43 district jobs in order to balace the 2013-2014 budget.
About half those cuts will happen through attrition, district officials said after Tuesday night's board meeting.
Of the jobs that were eliminated, 19 were teaching positions, although Superintendent Susan McGinley said 14 of those cuts will happen through attrition. The remaining five teachers will be furloughed.
It marked the second year in a row the district has laid off employees in order to balance its budget.
Last month, the school board voted 6-3 for a $134 million budget that was balanced by a 1.7 percent tax increase, $750,000 from the district fund balance, and job cuts.
The cuts apply to the following positions:
- One high school French teacher
- One high school Spanish teacher
- One high school special education teacher
- One high school technology education teacher
- One high school family and consumer science teacher
- One high school English as a second language teacher
- One middle school Read 180 teacher, for grades 7 and 8
- One middle school special education teacher, for grades 5 and 6
- One elementary school librarian
- Seven elementary school classroom teachers
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