District overview
East Side Union High School District
Governance, finances, staffing, and major work on the public board record.
What is the central issue in the current record?
East Side is a public high school district governed by a five-member Board of Trustees. During the reviewed year, the board approved a qualified first-interim budget certification, planned reductions, and later certificated and classified service reductions.
Fiscal warning
The board approved a qualified certification of the 2025-26 first-interim financial report on December 11, 2025.
Staffing reductions
The board approved certificated and classified service reductions on May 7, 2026; the approved minutes do not state the total number affected.
Leadership
The board appointed Carla Hernandez principal of James Lick High School and rescinded release notices for three associate principals.
Technology financing
The board authorized up to $25 million in 2022-election education-technology bonds.
The record shows several consequential fiscal actions, but the stored minutes do not by themselves quantify the full multiyear shortfall or the final number of positions eliminated.
Where the district stands
Major projects
Budget reduction and fiscal-solvency work
Reductions approvedBoard approved certificated and classified service reductions.
- Board approved a qualified first-interim budget certification.
- Board held a study session on multiyear budget and reduction planning.
- Board approved certificated and classified service reductions.
Funding
District operating budget
Education-technology bond issuance
AuthorizedBoard authorized Series A education-technology bonds up to $25 million.
- Board authorized Series A education-technology bonds up to $25 million.
Funding
2022 election general-obligation bonds
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