Layoff slips sent in Austintown schools

AUSTINTOWN — Before a packed meeting, the Austintown School Board voted to send layoff notices to all nonteaching employees except for 42 bus drivers and three bus mechanics.

Reduction-in-force notices are sent to Ohio Association of Public School Employees every year. They are a formality, and most employees are called back.

But this year, said OAPSE Local No. 194 President Bonnie Grantz, she was given not a list of names for the layoffs, but groups of people — the entire cafeteria and custodial staffs, 19 paraprofessionals and one secretary.

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