St. Paul educators union says district's plan to cut English learner teachers was made in secret

St. Paul Public Schools is proposing to eliminate educators midyear, and the teachers' union says the cuts would fall on English learner teachers and were planned in secret.Union President Carrie Kyung said the plan includes cutting up to 18 English learner teachers and would affect at least two dozen schools. Kyung said the school board is trying to rush the plan through and should reject it and reconsider its options for balancing the budget.Superintendent Stacie Stanley outlined the proposal in a letter to families. She wrote that many students who are no longer enrolled in the district's schools are English learners, citing the effects of Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities, and an overall decline in district families. Stanley said district funding is based largely on enrollment."I wish the circumstances were different, and that we were not in this situation that none of us asked to be in," Stanley wrote.Her letter also says the d