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FRESNO, Calif. – More than 500 teachers and staff with Fresno Unified recently accepted an early retirement deal. This comes at a time that the district has noted a declining enrollment of students – and a need to save on costs.
Fresno Unified is the state’s third largest school district. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has lost 1,000 students a year, according to its superintendent Misty Her, who recently spoke with KVPR’s Central Valley Daily podcast…