FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Tricia McManus sat down with FOX8 to address questions and concerns about the $5 million budget shortfall announced earlier this week at a board of education meeting.
FOX8 asked McManus if the district prepared adequately for the ESSER funding to end. ESSER is the acronym for the emergency funds awarded to schools as a result of the pandemic.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools budget shortfall draws questions with few answers
“We knew the ESSER funding was coming to an end … We prepared,” she said. “We’ve probably needed to make more reductions. Even had we not gotten ESSER dollars, we would have gotten to this place.”
The district is faced with dissolving vacant positions, demoting people or offering to reassign them, which affects 116 jobs…