Cut season is coming. Possibly.
The agenda for next Thursday’s Coupeville School Board meeting, posted online Friday night, includes Superintendent Shannon Leatherwood asking the board to adopt Resolution 2025-5.
That’s a “modified education plan for reducing programs and staff.”
The resolution states that “The Board of Directors of the Coupeville School District has reviewed reports of the Superintendent concerning a continued loss of fund balance.
“These circumstances will cause the District General Fund balance to continue to be below the 6% of the budget year’s expenditures outlined in District Policy 6200.
“At the present time the level of funding the district will receive from certain federal, state, and local funding sources is somewhat uncertain, but will clearly be insufficient to allow the district to maintain its current educational program and services.”
The modified education plan calls for reducing certificated staff by up to 8 FTE through a combination of attrition and reduction in force.
It also will combine the middle school principal and high school/middle school athletic director positions into one job, and the high school principal and Career and Technical Education leadership roles into one.
Both of those positions will be new hires.
CHS/CMS Principal Geoff Kappes and Assistant Principal Allyson Cundiff were placed on “non-disciplinary leave pending an investigation” Dec. 16, though district officials declined to say why.
Cundiff was brought back Mar. 19 in “a new capacity,” with district officials not addressing what that capacity is. Kappes resigned last week.
Athletic Director Brad Sherman is stepping down to spend more time with his young sons, as well.
The modified education plan, if approved, also will allow for the “elimination of (the) Assistant Food Service Director Position,” while “restructuring it into (a) Food Service Production Supervisor Role.”
Classroom considerations include the “possible move of the Coupeville Open Academy onsite, attrition reductions where possible, and potential class size increases in selected areas.”
To read the resolution:
Click to access Resolution-2025-05%20-%20Modified%20Education%20Plan.pdf
To read the Modified Education Plan:
Click to access Modified%20Education%20Plan_04.24.2025.pdf
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