Deep budget cuts to education inevitable: Teaching positions will be lost

(By Leslie Bray Evans, The Stokes News) - Teaching positions in Stokes County will suffer as a result of the budgetary shortfall on the state level. The original report was that 46 kindergarten through 12th grade teaching positions would be lost due to a lack of funding from the State of North Carolina.

Thanks to an extensive juggling effort on the part of Superintendent of Stokes County Schools Dr. Stewart Hobbs and his staff, that number should decrease.

At a joint meeting between the Stokes County Board of Education and the Stokes County Board of Commissioners on Monday afternoon, Hobbs announced that the actual number of positions would probably be somewhere between 15-29. Teaching assistant positions were another story, however. An estimated 29 of those may be gone in the upcoming school year.