Amherst School Committee Elementary Schools Budget Hearing (IMPORTANT to make Public Comments)

Amherst School Committee will hold their annual ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS budget hearing on Thursday February 27th at 6:30 PM in the ARHS library. (This was previously noted as 2/25 so please check your calendars.)

This budget hearing is the main opportunity for the public to weigh in on the Amherst Schools budget for next year.

• • The Elementary Schools budget contains $1,561,314 worth of reductions and impacts the following positions: (Budget Book Part 1, Budget Book Part 2)
    • Three Special Education Teacher positions (one at each of Crocker Farm, Fort River and Wildwood) eliminated
    • One Special Education Reading Teacher position eliminated
    • One Building Blocks/AIMS Teacher position eliminated
    • One Crocker Farm Kindergarten Teacher position eliminated
    • One Wildwood General Education Teacher position eliminated
    • One Caminantes Paraeducator position eliminated
    • One ELL Paraeducator position eliminated
    • One Crocker Farm Kindergarten Paraeducator position eliminated
    • All specials/band/orchestra teachers reduced from full time to .9
    • 3.4 Central Office positions reduced/eliminated

6:30 PM
In-Person Meeting and virtual at https://meet.google.com/fbb-fwur-odp
Library at ARHS
Public comment can be emailed to SCpubliccomment@arps.org by 3 p.m. on the day of the meeting. Public comment can also be left by voicemail (under 3 minutes) at 413-362-1891 by 3 p.m. on the day of the meeting.
This meeting will be shown via live-stream on Amherst Media (Channel 15)