UUSD to consider early retirement program turnout

The total of Upland Unified School District employees participating in the early retirement incentive program was presented to the school board Thursday morning during a special meeting.

The program will now proceed so decisions can be made as to which employees can be moved into different positions and how many pink slips may be rescinded.

29 teachers, 28 classified employees and 1 certificated management employee applied for the program through the Public Agency Retirement Services.

This does not mean 29 pink slips issued to teachers will be rescinded, but the 78 teachers and counselors who received slips will not all be let go.

"This is a good thing," said Sherri Black, assistant superintendent for Human Resources at the Upland Unified School District. "It's going to save the district money as well as bring teachers back to work and that was the intent of the whole program."

Black said she has already begun determining which employees can be moved around to different positions, which positions will or will not be replaced.

"In classified it's not as easy to do because they're all over different classifications," Black said. "More than likely what will happen is any major positions we will have to post and offer those jobs to our own employees first. Hopefully we will have some moved from people in lower positions into some of those retirement positions."

More details will be shared with the school board during the meeting Tuesday April 14.