District has released or reassigned several principals and assistant principals under Education Code 44951 this year

What happened

Beyond named reassignments and resignations at individual schools, the board has repeatedly used Education Code Section 44951 -- a process for releasing a certificated administrator from their post and reassigning them to a lower or classroom role -- against anonymized administrative employees this year: two on February 24, 2026, and, on June 16, 2026, two more explicitly identified as holding Principal and Assistant Principal positions, effective the end of the 2025-26 school year. The employees' names and school sites are not disclosed in the minutes.

Why it matters to families

Even without the names attached, the repeated use of this specific, formal removal-from-administrative-post process against principal- and assistant-principal-level staff points to real leadership turnover across district schools this year, on top of the retirements, resignations, and reassignments the record identifies by name elsewhere.

The evidence

The June 16, 2026 minutes record the board voting 5-0 to issue Education Code 44951 release notices for administrative employees (ID numbers 17303 and 14333) 'from the administrative positions of Principal and Assistant Principal,' following a similar 4-0 action for two anonymized administrators on February 24, 2026.

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