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QUINCY, IL -- The Quincy School Board has voted to cut 28 teaching positions and freeze 22 administrators' salaries for the next school year.

School board members met for two hours tonight to discuss ways to reduce the district's budget by $2 million.

Most of that meeting was spent in closed session.

The board met at the Quincy School Board conference room, which turned out to be standing room only.

The Quincy School Board voted to eliminate teachers who fall into the following categories -- non-final year probationary teachers; non-final year probationary teachers for economic reasons; and final year probationary teachers. Eight educators will resign at the end of the 2008-2009 school year, and the school board has decided not to fill those positions. The cuts combined with the vacancies that will not be filled means 28 teaching positions will be eliminated. That's 5.6 percent of the Quincy Public School's teachers.

Are students going to suffer because of the cuts in teachers?

Superintendent Lonny Lemon says, "I'm hoping to say no. Our staff has always been so good. This has happened many times during the last 30 years of Quincy Public Schools, and our staff is great. I know they'll come to work just as hard, and it's our hope they'll find their way."

Board President Tom Dickerson said the board felt the reductions should be shared by administrators.

Dickerson says, "As difficult as that is and as hard as they work, it wasn't really about that. It's about sharing the burden that our whole district is facing during hard economic times. We don't take joy in what we've had to do."

Lemon says the board plans to hold another special meeting on April 20th to decide which "classified" or "non-teaching" employees will lose their jobs. He said the board had to act today on teaching cuts in order to comply with Illinois state codes. 

Here's a list of teachers who will lose their jobs: 

NON-FINAL YEAR PROBATION TEACHERS
1. SHADE,SHIRLEY QHS
2. KIPPING, SARAH QHS
3. PERRINE, LYNDEE JUNIOR HIGH
4. PRENGER, CRISTI JUNIOR HIGH

NON-FINAL YEAR PROBATIONARY TEACHERS FOR ECONOMIC REASONS
5. FEE, NIKKI WASHINGTON
6. MEYER, MARY BERRIAN

NON-FINAL YEAR PROBATIONARY PART-TIME/PART-YEAR TEACHERS ECONOMIC REASONS
7. BOTTORFF, KAREN QHS
8. FORBES, VICTORIA BERRIAN
9. LUADERS, ROCHELLE QHS
10. BREMSER,JAMES QHS
11. SCHRAND, JIM DISTRICT
12. SCHWARTZKOPF, ANN BALDWIN
13. STEERS, JUDY QJHS
14. MAYS, SHARON DISTRICT

FINAL YEAR PROBATIONARY TEACHERS
15. LARSON, KELLI WASHINTON
16. SCHREACKE, ERICA MONROE

RESIGNATIONS (Effective at the end of the 2008-2009 school year)
17. STOFFER, CHRISTINA BALDWIN S
18. RICHMILLER, JENNIFER BALDWIN N
19. ENGELBRECHT, ANNE DISTRICT MUSIC
20. BORROWMAN, ASHLEY DISTRICT SPEECH-LANGUAGE
21. SIMPSON, TAWNIA BALDWIN S
22. JOHNSON, JERRY QJHS
23. BUNCH, CINDY BALDWIN N
24. VOSS, AMY QJHS

APPOINTMENT (Effective for the 2009-2010 school year)
25. R KAYLA CRAWFORD, Speech & Language Therapist. Salary: MS+20 0 years experience= $37,041. Effective for the 2009-2010 school year.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE
26. LEANNE HOLLENSTEINER, paraeducator at QHS, requesting a leave of absense effective for the 2009-2010 school year.

ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENT
27. CAMMIE MOCK- Summer Academy Clerical. 3-4 hours daily as needed (evenings and weekends). Salary: Timesheet $10/hr-temporary position. Effective March 14-July 3, 2009.

RESIGNATIONS
28. MEGAN JACKSON, paraeducator at Baldwin West, effective at the end of the 2009-2010 school year.

Administration Subject to Proposed Salary Freeze
B. Shane Barnes Transportation Director
Kelle Bunch Madison Principal
Anne Cashman Ellington Principal
Jody Cooper Title I/Testing/Technology
Sara Cramer Washington Principal
Cynthia Crow Baldwin South Principal
Chrstine Dickens Assistant Superintendent
Kathi Dooley Music Director
Jerry Ellerman Dewey Principal
Diane Glaub Junior High Principal
Kristen Kendrick Special Education Director
Richard Owsley Junior High Assistant Principal/Student Services
Lonny B. Lemon Superintendent
Pamela J. Rein Irving Alternative School/Director Alternative Programs
Jill Reis Berrian Principal
William Sanders High School Assistant Principal/Student Services
Melanie Schrand Baldwin West Principal
Julie Schuckman Early Childhood Director
Jody Steinke Junior High Assistant Principal/Curriculum & Instruction
Julie Stratman Monroe Principal
Patricia Sullivan-Viniard Assistant Superintendent/Curriculum & Instruction
Marcey Wells Adams Principal