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May. 19, 2011
At a special meeting of the Garrett County Board of Education held on Tuesday, Dr. Wendell Teets, superintendent of schools, announced that no school personnel would be laid off in 2012.
This news, well received by a few teachers and faculty members in attendance, was attributed in part to the savings gained from a retirement incentive offered by the school system.
In all, the incentive allowed the schools to reduce through attrition 27 faculty positions, apply those savings to the budget, and avoid terminating any employees.
“This program has saved a lot of young teachers and provided an investment in the future,” Teets said of the incentive. “Without it we would have had to look at layoffs.”
In a presentation on the 2012 budget, Teets dubbed the recent impact on the county’s state aid a “perfect storm.”
Initially faced with a budget shortfall of around $3 million, the Garrett County education system recorded the state’s largest drop in enrollment and its largest per pupil wealth increase, all while the state’s per pupil wealth decreased.
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