Dover teacher cuts in negotiations as budget deadline looms
DOVER – As the Dover School Board faces a March 2 deadline to finalize the city school district s next fiscal year budget, negotiations with its teachers unions regarding staff reductions are ongoing.
The board is now evaluating district-wide staff reductions of 12 teaching positions – seven at the middle school and five at Dover High School – and 18 paraprofessionals – 14 at the elementary level, three at the middle school and one at Dover High School – and a few other clerical positions.
This estimate is down from the previously discussed cut of 40 teaching positions, and an increase from the 13 paraeducators and three clerks previously discussed in public meetings.
The Dover Teachers Union reacted this week to the news that approximately 40 teaching positions could be eliminated under a new tax-cap compliant budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
Posting to Facebook on Wednesday, the Dover Teachers Union shared that the Dover School District had been tasked with compiling a new budget, according to the post, which added that preliminary estimates could require significant position reductions.
According to those projections, shared by the Dover Teachers Union on Wednesday and originally outlined during a Dover School Board meeting on Monday, those 40 district-wide reductions in teaching positions could include 11 elementary teaching job reductions, 13 middle school reductions, and 16 high school reductions.
Ron Cole
Dover has been around a long time. The past is even longer than the city has been known as Dover. It also has a present and a future, so let’s talk about all of them.
Just the other day, I was wondering about Dover’s 400th anniversary in 2023 and thinking COVID-19 must have caused the committee to push things to the back burner. Little did I know there was big stuff coming, as Kevin McEneaney, chair of Dover400 committee advised me. The members of the committee have been meeting regularly as they work on the story of our 400 years.
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