Budget cuts threatening a New Jersey school district could mean job losses for more than 200 education professionals.

The Paterson school board this week approved significant budget cuts in order to maintain a balanced budget or remain under control of the state, according to a report in The New York Times.

The cuts would reduce the number of teachers for the district by 6 percent, with 150 teachers losing their jobs, along with 23 vice principals, 29 supervisors, 11 support staff and five directors.

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The school district has been under state control since 1989, but last year signed a two-year agreement that would move it back to local control if it achieved goals for graduation rates and standardized testing while maintaining a balanced budget.

The proposed cuts come on the heels of more than 500 education positions being lost from 2010 to 2017 as the state’s third-biggest city has a shortfall of $280 million from the state, according to the Times.

“We’ve been underfunded for a very long time,” Oshin Castillo, the president of Paterson’s board of education, told the Times. “The fear is that if we continue at this rate, it is going to end up taking local control away. We can’t educate our students if we continue to cut teachers.”

Additionally, music and arts programs would be cut in the proposed budget.

The board approved the budget this week on a 6-3 vote.

Board member Robinson Rondon told the Paterson Times he didn’t “want to do this, but I feel obligated.” The district has more than 28,000 students across 54 schools.