Your Views: Schools should cut administrators, not teachers
By Santa Ynez Valley Star Staff · Tue Mar 17 2020
I am on the PTA at Vista de Las Cruces School and sit on their Vista Foundation board. Our school board just pink-slipped three full-time teachers and one part-time staff member. We will be down to three teachers for TK through eighth grade.
I have proposed to their board that they annex to another district and share administration costs.
Did you know that we have seven (yes, seven!) superintendents in the Santa Ynez Valley for 2,925 students, based on 2016-17 enrollment reports. Here is the breakdown: