Marblehead – Superintendent of Schools Paul Dulac?s first proposed school budget, $27.87 million, will cut the equivalent of a half-dozen employees and reassign administration staff so that he can continue new academic programs.Dulac unveiled his level-funded budget to School Committee members Thursday. It is $1.15 million more than this year?s $26.65 million but, after adding conservative estimates of state aid and revenue, the net increase is $1.01 million, or 3.94 percent, an increase within the guideline set by town officials at the December financial outlook meeting.The proposed budget reallocates $413,227 to strengthen the reading and writing program in kindergarten through Grade 3, planning an International Baccalaureate Program at Marblehead High and other academic changes. It also includes part-time library aides, returning a group that was cut from this year?s budget. Dulac got that money by reducing staff by the equivalent of 6.9 full-time employees, reassigning and changing administration staff and reducing expenditures on supplies and materials and special education savings.Dulac said he has told all of the affected employees personally about his plans for next year. He planned to report further on the administrative changes at Thursday night?s School Committee meeting. He noted that the employee reductions were in addition to anticipated staff retirements.The budget is based on maintaining current student enrollment levels, and does not reflect Gov. Deval Patrick?s proposed increases in school aid.In the event the town does receive additional school aid, Dulac suggested reinstating some programs and staff, technology purchases and a prioritized list of new employees, including two fifth-grade tutors, a kindergarten teacher, a technology integration specialist, a high school English teacher, part-time math teacher leaders at the middle school and high school, a part-time custodian at the middle school and a part-time human resources specialist in the central office.Dulac noted that the schools absorbed 100 additional students this fall without seeking more money. If more students enter the schools next fall n if the economic downturn forces the return of private school students to public school, for example n “We are very full and very tight and any changes at all may have an impact on this budget,” he said.The superintendent scheduled three budget deliberation meetings in February and March, a presentation to the Finance Committee March 18, a School Committee revenue review March 20 and a budget public hearing April 3. The condensed schedule will allow the committee more time to discuss capital articles relating to elementary school design and school repairs.School Committee members Jonathan Lederman and Patricia Blackmer asked Dulac to take a close look at kindergarten classes this spring so that class size could be maintained at 20.Rob Dana pointed out that Dulac?s new emphasis on non-fiction writing could require each high school English teacher to correct 100 papers a week, adding as much as eight hours to each teacher?s schedule. He suggested hiring an additional English teacher to reduce the workload.He also reminded his colleagues that the schools had to absorb budget cuts last year by axing all library aides.?We took it on the chin, but we can?t keep operating that way,” he said.