Epic Charter Schools announces layoffs, citing decline in enrollment

There’s nary question that COVID-19 brought caller families into our schoolhouse some successful the mode of students and staff. At the tallness of the pandemic, our enrollment ballooned to astir 61,000 kids, but present that beingness is returning to normal, we person seen an expected diminution successful enrollment.

Three retired of 5 kids who came to EPIC owed to the pandemic person chosen to instrumentality to their location districts, but astir 2 retired of 5 person chosen to enactment astatine EPIC.

For those of you who person chosen to enactment with us: convey you. We are honored to service your kids, and we’re arrogant to person travel done specified hard days with your assistance and support. Serving our students afloat and efficiently is astatine the bosom of each we do, and that’s wherefore we present person immoderate hard decisions to marque successful presumption of staffing.

We privation to supply transparency, truthful I’m penning to fto you cognize that we person begun the process of right-sizing our operations done a simplification successful unit (RIF).

This process began connected Friday and volition proceed this month; we expect operations volition normalize by the extremity of the existent schoolhouse year. We are being proactive successful our planning. Our extremity done this process is to make the slightest magnitude of disruption to our students.

This is simply a achy time, but it’s captious that we physique semipermanent stableness and viability into our enactment truthful we tin proceed serving kids for generations to come.

We volition support you apprised of aboriginal developments. We inquire for your patience, and we convey you for choosing EPIC for your family.

Sincerely,

Bart Banfield
Superintendent, EPIC Charter Schools"