Poway Unified trustees have signed off on a cost-cutting play that mixes warning shots with golden handshakes, authorizing preliminary layoff notices while opening a voluntary early-retirement window designed to trim payroll and sidestep larger rounds of pink slips. District leaders say the goal is to bring down labor costs while giving longtime employees a way to step away with benefits intact.
Board approves PARS plan and layoff resolutions
At its last Thursday meeting, the board approved a trio of resolutions that clear the way for both incentives and job cuts for the 2026–27 school year. Trustees voted to join a supplementary retirement plan through Public Agency Retirement Services, also known as PARS, and backed two separate resolutions seeking…..