District overview
Dublin Unified School District
How Dublin Unified is governed, funded, and changing through 2026–27.
What is shaping Dublin Unified's budget?
Dublin Unified approved qualified certifications at its First, Second, and Third Interim checkpoints and adopted a major 2026–27 reduction plan. The board later finalized both classified and certificated layoffs while continuing large bond-funded school construction.
The adopted budget changed materially
December minutes describe significant differences between the adopted budget and First Interim, which the board certified as qualified.
Reductions moved from plans to employment decisions
The January plan preserved $200,000 in summer-school funding but began certificated and classified reduction processes; final layoffs passed in May.
Capital projects use separate funding
The district awarded $40.91 million for Emerald High's theater and $17.12 million for Dublin Elementary modernization.
Leadership changed during the fiscal response
The board selected longtime Dublin administrator Matt Campbell as superintendent in February 2026.
Qualified certification is a warning requiring corrective action, not a declaration of insolvency. The district continued to approve its operating plan and separately funded capital construction.
Where the district stands
External identity context; not derived from the board corpus.
The board removed $200,000 of proposed summer-school savings before approving the plan.
Guaranteed maximum price approved January 13, 2026.
Phase 2.2 guaranteed maximum price approved January 13, 2026.
Major projects
Fiscal stabilization and staffing reductions
Qualified through Third InterimThe district moved from a qualified First Interim to a 2026–27 reduction plan and final layoff resolutions. The newest collected agenda also proposed restoring some school-site funding, but minutes were not yet available.
- Board approves qualified First Interim
- Board approves reduction plan and initial reduction-in-force resolutions
- Board approves qualified Second Interim
- Board finalizes classified and certificated layoffs
- Board approves qualified Third Interim
Funding
General Fund
The reduction plan began at $6.8 million and excluded $200,000 in proposed summer-school savings before approval.
Emerald High and Dublin Elementary construction
Major contracts awardedThe board awarded guaranteed-maximum-price contracts for Emerald High's theater and Dublin Elementary's Phase 2.2 modernization.
- Board awards both construction contracts
Funding
Facilities and bond program
$40.91 million for Emerald High and $17.12 million for Dublin Elementary.
Shamrock Hills TK–8 opening
Opening planned for 2026–27Board updates carried the school from construction and boundary planning through furnishings and operating preparations under inaugural principal Erin Magill.
- First board update covers construction, transfers, and boundaries
- School logo introduced in third update
- Fourth progress update presented
Funding
District facilities program
This corpus includes progress updates but not one complete total project cost.
Built from all 47 official accessible board agenda and minutes records collected for August 12, 2025 through August 12, 2026.
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