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By Andy Giegerich Portland's public schools could retain grade-school physical education classes but lose as many as 114 full-time teaching positions. The Portland School Board agreed on Monday night to $13 million in cuts that come after state budget woes required the district to slash $19 million from its 2010-11 $456 million budget. The district's school board believes Portland can collect about $6 million in federal funds to help defray the state reductions. The federal funding would protect 64 teaching jobs, according to a district press release. The cuts, which will be formally approved in coming weeks, include: - $3.1 million, or as many as 25 full-time employees, in central operations and support. - $4.6 million, or the equivalent of 52 full-time teaching positions, in special education and English as a second language programs. - $5.6 million, or 62 full-time teaching positions, among school staffers. Principals will decide how to reduce staff. The physical education programs will be staffed by an instructors who would work at least half-time. The federal funds would come through Congress's Education Jobs Act, which would preserve teaching jobs at hard-hit school districts. |
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