Boston Public Schools officials outlined their upcoming financial plan for schools Thursday evening, for the first time sharing specifics about the loss of over 400 positions in next year’s budget and hearing comment from the public and school committee.
The staffing losses include 265 teaching positions and 161 paraprofessional positions. A little more than half are the result of school closures and grade reconfigurations in fewer than 10 schools, superintendent Mary Skipper told the school committee.
To combat rising costs and enrollment decline, the $1.7 billion proposed budget will focus on two components for a new “formula” to determine each school’s funding next year: compliance to district policies, bargaining contracts and state and federal laws, and flexible spending, allocated per student and differentiated by need…