Support Sausalito Marin City Students -- Reject Cuts That Hurt Students
Sausalito Marin City School Board Trustees
Students in Sausalito and Marin City deserve high-quality public schools that reflect the values and excellence of their communities. Our students, families, and educators need consistency in our schools and to have dedicated, reliable staff so that we can all thrive.
Unfortunately, Superintendent Itoco Garcia and the SMCSD School Board have failed to make financial decisions that keep our students' education stable and secure. In the midst of the pandemic and the merger with Willow Creek, the Superintendent and Board chose to merge and hire educators using $1.6 million in one-time funds and are now proposing to cut these very same people. Our educators have worked hard to build a new community of schools for our students by actively joining together and creating new bonds; our students have moved sites, met new teachers, and have thrived; our families have also connected with new educators, new schools, and new systems. Now, all this trust and hard work by students, educators, and families is going to be lost. The cuts proposed by the Superintendent will only serve to hurt our students, will break bonds of trust, and will cause 9 teachers to be fired and another 9 classified support personnel to lose their jobs.
The SMCSD School Board must uphold the commitment to students, educators, and families by only making cuts that happen far away from our students. They must reject calls to rip educators away from their students at a time where they need them most. They must work hard to not inflict more trauma on our students, educators, and their families. Our students should not suffer because of poor decisions made by the Superintendent and the Board. Keep cuts away from our students. Our students and our communities deserve better.
Please sign this petition to let the Sausalito Marin City School Board and Superintendent Itoco Garcia know that you want them to only make cuts away from our students and you want them to reject calls to fire classroom educators so that our students and families can thrive. We also encourage you to attend the School Board meeting on March 10 and to speak up against cuts that hurt students.
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Students in Sausalito and Marin City deserve high-quality public schools that reflect the values and excellence of their communities. Our students, families, and educators need consistency in our schools and to have dedicated, reliable staff so that we can all thrive.
The Sausalito Marin City Board of Trustees should reject cuts that fire classroom educators and inflicts trauma on our students, educators, and their families. Our communities have gone through important unification work, have worked hard to keep students and educators safe during the pandemic, and we should not now fire the same educators our students and families have come to rely on.
The decision to hire large numbers of educators using one-time funds was misguided and reckless from the beginning and demonstrates a lack of long-term commitment to a stable educational environment for our students and their families. It does not help the District achieve its mission to provide a high-quality education for all of our students and their families. In short, this decision has failed those who trust us to do what is right.
SMCSD must now make better choices by insisting on cuts that start as far away from our students as possible. Cuts to classroom educators must only be an option of last-resort because that impacts our students the most. The Board must demand that the Superintendent and administrators make new proposals of items to be cut that are prioritized by what will have the least impact on the education our students deserve.
We call upon the SMCSD Board of Trustees and the Superintendent to reject the current proposed cuts and to create a new set of cuts that are prioritized to be as far away from students as possible. The current cuts will only serve to hurt students by inflicting unnecessary trauma on the students, educators, and their families who you serve.