The San Francisco Unified School District is set to vote on issuing 837 preliminary layoff notices amid a $113 million budget deficit. Meredith Dodson, head of the Parent Coalition, expresses concern over the impact of potential layoffs on educational services for children. Notably, former SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne’s cost-saving plan to close schools has been halted by the new superintendent. Despite the looming layoffs, there is some positive news with an increase in early pre-K enrollment and kindergarten applications, which could provide additional funding.
"I think anytime you're cutting services and staff to kids, it's awful all around," said Meredith Dodson. Dodson heads the San Francisco Parent Coalition and has two kids of her own.
"We were expecting something severe and this is really severe. It's like 10% of our staff they're talking about cutting," Dodson said.
"In regards to enrollment, we're seeing an upward trend in our early pre-K enrollment, and I believe we just received about 150 new kinder applications above from last year," Kim said.
"I know for a fact that we are looking at central office, and expenses, and programs, and people we have there, in addition to our programs in our schools."
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