The Natomas Unified School Board will vote Wednesday night on whether the district should shell out incentive money to teachers willing to give notice before the end of March.
Early notice from teachers intending to retire or leave the district before the next school year allows the district to send out fewer preliminary pink slips in March and final pink slips in June, according to the staff recommendation.
School districts are required to send out preliminary pink slips in the spring to any teacher who may be laid off at the end of the school year. The March deadline, however, falls well before the state has finalized its budget, so districts usually have to send out far more preliminary lay-off notices in March then final notices in June.
Fewer pink slips improves staff morale, enables the district to keep quality recent hires and improves the efficiency of the school staffing process, according to district information.
District staff are recommending that employees who submit an "irrevocable notice of retirement" by 4 p.m. March 7 receive $2,500. If teachers submit the same notice between March 8-29 they can receive $1,250.
The meeting is at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the district headquarters at 1931 Arena Blvd. in Natomas.
Loretta Kalb started her reporting career at The Sacramento Union, moved to KOVR-13 as a television reporter, editor and producer, headed to The Associated Press in San Francisco and eventually returned to Sacramento and joined The Sacramento Bee. Throughout her career, she has covered the state Legislature, courts, local government and, now, education. She is a Chico native and an Elk Grove resident.
Diana Lambert began her journalism career as a proofreader at the Lodi News-Sentinel. She is now a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee covering K-12 education and California State University, Sacramento. Previously she was The Bee’s Elk Grove bureau chief. Lambert was raised in a military family and lived at bases around the globe. She attended four high schools, graduating from Tokay High in Lodi and then Sacramento State University. She lives in Elk Grove.
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