{"id":204944,"date":"2026-03-05T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:28:09","slug":"sacramento-city-unified-to-consider-400-additional-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204944\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento City Unified to consider 400 additional layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Abridged version:<\/p>\n

Sacramento City Unified is considering roughly 380 additional layoff notices, mostly for non-teaching staff and employees in the district\u2019s central office.<\/p>\n

The school board will discuss and vote on the potential layoffs at a meeting Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Employees in positions on the chopping block will receive initial notice by March 15. District leaders have two months then to reconsider before final notices in mid-May.<\/p>\n

Sacramento City Unified is considering approximately 380 additional layoffs to help balance its budget, according to a district spokesman.<\/p>\n

Positions on the chopping block are predominantly non-teaching staff and employees in the district\u2019s central office, said Brian Heap, the district\u2019s chief communications officer.<\/p>\n

In their search for savings to solve a multimillion-dollar budget problem<\/a>, school board members have targeted administrators who they say are furthest from the classroom.<\/p>\n

The newly proposed cuts \u2014 on the agenda for the board\u2019s Thursday evening meeting \u2014 come weeks after trustees approved more than 400 positions to eliminate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Staff and officials said at the time they did not expect all 423 notices to result in actual terminations. About 120 of the identified positions are currently vacant. Other employees who receive a notice may be able to shift to another role in the district.<\/p>\n

Budget woes hit across Sacramento City Unified<\/p>\n

The district is racing to close a $113 million budget deficit and stave off a state takeover. Ramifications of the ensuing budget cuts have touched departments and sites across Sacramento City Unified.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting with our students, I am truly sorry for how the decisions we have to make up here are going to impact your learning experiences,\u201d Tara Jeane, school board president, said holding back tears during a Feb. 19 meeting. <\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThe cuts we have to consider on this timeline will be painful.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same meeting, interim Superintendent Cancy McArn warned the district is having to tighten its belt so much that almost any cuts at this point will likely affect students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the bar is bring cuts that don\u2019t impact students, we passed that already,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Savannah Kuchar\u00a0is a reporter covering education. She came to Sacramento to be a part of the Abridged team and contribute to a crucial local news source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Sacramento City Unified is considering roughly 380 additional layoff notices, mostly for non-teaching staff and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7999,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-204944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-highlight","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}