Five-year plan helps Coronado schools cope

CORONADO — The outlook for Coronado schools is better than most in the county. For the second year in a row, the Coronado Unified School District will avoid teacher layoffs, thanks in part to measures taken a couple of years ago to allow the district to fare as well as possible in “an unusually long recession.”

“Two years ago, the Coronado team — the governing board, superintendent, employee unions and our community — had the foresight to develop a five-year plan in anticipation of an economic turnaround in five years,” said Randie Allen, associate superintendent of the Coronado district, which has five schools and 3,079 students.

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