The Bainbridge Island School Board unanimously passed a resolution Thursday evening to cut 12 teachers and six other certified positions.
The district is trying to offset an expected $2.2 million budget shortfall for the 2009-2010 school year.
Reductions include seven teachers in kindergarten through sixth grades and the equivalent of four teachers in seventh through 12th grades. An additional teaching position devoted to curriculum development will also be lost.
Other positions will be trimmed from the administrative, counseling, nursing, special education, home school support and multicultural education rosters.
The staffing reduction is likely the largest in the district’s history, Bainbridge Superintendent Faith Chapel said.
Bainbridge isn’t alone. Bremerton and North Kitsap school districts joined Bainbridge last week in issuing laying off notices for about three dozen teachers.
Read our story on the county-wide school cuts here.
