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Salt Lake City schools will cut 42 teaching jobs. Here’s their starting point.

While the distribution of staff cuts may change, the district plans to trim the equivalent of 42 full-time teachers due to declining enrollment.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kim Dean works with students in her seventh grade science class at Nibley Park School in 2017. Due to declining enrollment, Nibley Park would have been one of the schools hit hardest — losing the equivalent of 4.5 full-time teachers — if Salt Lake City School District had followed its staffing formula. Instead, the board voted to suspend the formula. District staff have proposed cutting two positions at Nibley, but that number is not final.