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The May 2024 override took 13 posts off the cut list; the 9 left match posts listed as cut for loss of ESSER.
1 · The facts
22
posts to be cut without an override
9
posts to be cut with one
753
votes for the override, May 2024
664
votes against
13
posts off the operative list
9
of the 9 that stayed pair to a post cut for loss of ESSER
our estimate
—
what became of any post on either list
not published
2 · What it shows
1
Before the May 2024 vote the committee published two lists: 22 posts without an override, 9 with.
2
The override passed 753 to 664, so 13 posts came off the list that applied.
3
Each of the 9 that stayed matches a post the budget update lists as cut for loss of ESSER.
4
Two lists and a ballot show which list applied, not what happened to any post.
The posts still cut with the override, as each document prints them
As the budget update lists it, cut for loss of ESSERnot from the books
Instructional Coach Districtwide
Instructional Coach (district)
Intervention Teacher LHS
Intervention Teacher (LHS)
Classroom Teacher LMS
Classroom Teacher (LMS-grade 8)
Humanities Teacher LHS
Classroom Teacher (LHS-history)
Counselor LMS
Guidance Counselor (LMS)
Classroom Teacher THES
Classroom Teacher (THES-grade 5)
Wilson Reading Teacher THES
Wilson Reading Teacher (THES)
Social Worker PS
Social Worker (PS-second SW position)
PE Teacher PS/THES
PE Teacher (PS/THES)
Left: the School Committee’s override statement. Right: the FY25 Superintendent’s Budget Update. The pairing is ours.
What was said
“I personally did not feel it appropriate to transfer the burden of that money from the federal government grants on to the backs of Lunenburg taxpayers.”