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🌱 Patch AM: Why teachers want a spending audit before Palo Alto cuts classrooms

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  • Why teachers want a spending audit before Palo Alto cuts classrooms

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📰 News we're reading

• Teachers union wants to know how much money is going for administrators and consultants (padailypost.com) — Palo Alto's teachers union is urging the school district to audit spending on administrators and consultants before cutting classroom programs to close a proposed $33 million budget gap. Union leaders argue the district already exceeds state requirements for teacher compensation and praise new Superintendent Jason Glass for trimming central-office roles first, while warning that talk of layoffs is premature as enrollment declines and long-term restructuring begins.
   

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