By Brittany Hanson/Garden Grove Journal
Twenty positions in the Garden Grove Unified School District have been eliminated as of Tuesday night’s school board meeting: 10 instructional aides, specifically in preschool programs and 10 school office clerks at elementary and intermediate schools have been cut due to a lack of funds.
“We can’t guarantee placement in the district for all of them,” said Laura Schwalm, GGUSD Superintendent, “but our schools don’t have the attrition to cover them.”
Earlier in the evening, board member Linda Reed had expressed concern over the growth in size of elementary schools during the modernization process.
“What happens when you have a school of 900, with the office filled with the phone ringing, the bloody noses and skinned knees and no one to do anything about that,” said Reed.
