CCSD reassigns scores of workers in fall ‘surplus’ process

The Clark County School District is reassigning arsenic galore arsenic 78 employees based chiefly connected pupil enrollment and programme changes.

The schoolhouse district, which has astir 42,000 employees, held meetings Wednesday for affected enactment unit employees and Thursday for licensed employees. At the sessions, workers were capable to take from hundreds of vacant jobs astatine different schools during what is known arsenic the “surplus” process.

Of those impacted, astir 55 are licensed employees — including teachers — and 23 are enactment staff, according to the district. The fig of licensed employees whitethorn fluctuate since the 2nd gathering hadn’t yet occurred erstwhile a territory spokesperson provided an update Thursday afternoon.

Affected employees are involuntarily shifted to different campuses oregon positions if their schoolhouse has a driblet successful pupil numbers arsenic of a autumn “count day.” Reassignments are for the remainder of the schoolhouse year.

At the gathering for enactment professionals, the territory made wide that employees indispensable prime from disposable positions for which they’re qualified and eligible.

“Should nary lateral presumption beryllium available, the worker whitethorn prime a presumption astatine a little wage grade,” it said successful a presentation. If a lateral presumption is disposable and an worker is qualified but declines, “The worker has successful effect resigned from the CCSD,” it said.

Employees with the slightest seniority are moved to antithetic positions unless idiosyncratic other volunteers to go.

As a effect of the process, immoderate schools volition summation employees; others volition suffer them.

For enactment staff, determination were astir 690 vacant positions to take from during the surplus process, Education Support Employees Association President Jan Giles said Thursday via email.

Six employees didn’t person a lateral presumption enactment and 2 of them accepted demotions “against the union’s advice,” Giles said.

A Clark County Education Association teachers national spokeswoman didn’t person an update connected the surplus process Thursday, but a territory spreadsheet shown astatine the gathering for licensed professionals showed much than 560 disposable occupation positions.

The Review-Journal counted astir 41 licensed employees who participated successful the surplus meeting. Of those, astir 8 selected Nevada Learning Academy, the schoolhouse district’s lone online school, which saw an exponential enrollment growth this schoolhouse twelvemonth amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opponents of the surplus process person argued it’s disruptive to some employees and students, and tin pb to larger people sizes for students erstwhile their teachers are displaced to different campus.

Others person argued determination are issues with the process fixed the state’s reorganization instrumentality that allows CCSD principals and campuses much power implicit decisions, including staffing.

“Just a connection of caution: Surplus makes teachers and enactment unit consciousness precise uncomfortable and unvalued,” teacher Machelle Rasmussen told the School Board astatine its gathering past week.

Surplus is “not an acceptable enactment methodology,” Rasmussen said. “It really is an denotation of mediocre management. It should beryllium avoided astatine each costs.”

Fewer licensed professionals are being reassigned this autumn compared to erstwhile schoolhouse years.

In fall 2020, for example, astir 65 were facing surplus. Before that, the territory had 122 teachers successful the surplus process successful autumn 2017 and 98 successful autumn 2016.

Contact Julie Wootton-Greener astatine jgreener@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2921. Follow @julieswootton connected Twitter.