The Cayuga Onondaga BOCES cut 16 special education aide positions but the program was able to bring back some of those staff members in other ways.
Mark Vivacqua, the district's chief operating officer, said while 25 aide positions were up to possibly be cut ahead of the new school year, it later became 16 positions instead.
While those jobs were indeed removed, Vivacqua said, some of those staff members have been rehired for different positions.
For example, some of the staff members were brought on as one-to-one special education aides — where a student's disability requires an individual aide to work specifically with them — while others took on the aide positions of other staff members who had left, Vivacqua said.
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