St. Paul school board tackles $17.2 million budget gap

The St. Paul school board received an update Tuesday night on district efforts to resolve a $17.2 million budget gap — a week after the board made a late move to ease the crunch at one of its most popular schools.

The report included a long-awaited look at how many jobs could be lost as a result of the budget balancing. The district could lose about 27 full-time positions, with 3.25 of them involving teachers, said Laurin Cathey, the district’s human resources director.

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