In the face of budget cuts in the coming fiscal year, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board will debate whether to layoff teachers or implement staff cuts during a board meeting tonight. Neither option will be easy to swallow.
Layoffs could mean the loss of jobs for hundreds of teachers and larger classroom sizes for students. Pay cuts could mean a hit of 10 percent, according to board member Eric Davis.
It’s not a pretty picture.
CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman is basing plans on a scenario in which CMS would face a 4 percent state funding cut and a 3 percent cut from the county, according to the Observer article. Plus it would have to pull more than $62 million from current expenses and eliminate more than 800 jobs – including about 600 teachers. And cuts could go even deeper, depending on how the final three months of this budget year play out.
