“‘We anticipated some growth (at the high school level), so we allocated some teaching positions, but not enough to account for 211 more kids,’ Doll said, in reference to four high school teaching positions that were added for this school year.

“But other position reductions for this school year reduced high school positions. Contingency teachers for the middle and high schools — those not assigned to a classroom until closer to the beginning of the school year — were reduced from five teachers to three. The staff reductions were part of about 14 teaching positions not filled districtwide. The reductions were proposed in May as part of budget reductions made in response to changes to the state’s funding formula, district officials said at the time…

“And with the block grant set to continue next school year, the district will likely be faced with the same problem. That will likely mean cuts somewhere else in order to hire more teachers, Doll said.

“’There are no easy solutions to that,’ he said. ‘To come up with more money we have to make cuts somewhere else, but we have not started talking about that.’”

Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/sep/21/district-see-unexpected-increase-student-enrollmen/