"Our responsibility is to stabilize the district's finances while continuing to support students and staff. Taking action now allows us to maintain local control and make these decisions with community voices at the table,"
"The impacts of all of these concepts are real and they're deeply personal for our students, our staff and our families,"
West Contra Costa Unified faces a three-year, $127 million budget deficit and adopted a Fiscal Solvency Plan to stabilize finances. The board will empty a reserve fund and borrow from a retiree health fund while reducing staffing, merging two middle schools, and ending the K–8 model. An initial $60.4 million in reductions is expected in fiscal year 2026–27, including nearly $23 million from reserve and retiree benefit funds, $5.1 million from materials and contracts, $15.1 million from attrition-based staffing reductions, and $17.3 million from department restructuring. Another $27.2 million in cuts is planned for 2027–28 across contracts, programming, central departments, and technology. Betty Reid Soskin Middle School students will move to Pinole Middle School, and middle schoolers at K–8 campuses will move to middle school campuses.
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