Plans for how to close a $5.5 million budget hole at Multnomah County’s third-largest school district are up in the air after teachers and support staff overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to absorb 10 days without pay this school year.
If the Reynolds School District and its employees can’t come to an agreement by early November, Reynolds will need to cut an estimated 79 positions by Nov. 7, the end of the first quarter, Superintendent Frank Caropelo told The Oregonian/OregonLive. Only a tiny fraction of those could be eliminated by not filling open jobs, he said…