In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.

The math is not entirely clear, but the SFUSD is touting the positive news today that layoff notices approved last month for hundreds of teachers in the district are now being rescinded. The Chronicle previously reported that the SF school board had plans for 837 preliminary layoff notices, spread across teachers, paraeducators, administrators, counselors and others to address a $113.8 million budget shortfall. But that number has been cut by nearly half, with no teaching staff now affected, the district says.

"Thanks to the overwhelming interest in our retirement incentive, it’s a huge relief that teachers will not have to worry about pink slips," Superintendent Maria Su said in a statement. "At the same time, I recognize this is bittersweet as others in our workforce continue to experience uncertainty. We are not out of the woods with balancing our budget.”

Those "others in our workforce" include 34 counselors, 134 teachers aides, and 278 administrators and other staff who will still be getting pink slips next week, totaling 446 staff.

The real number of teacher jobs saved isn't entirely clear — the Chronicle pegs it at 395, but it could be closer to 100. Given that the 837 layoff notices were not approved, and the board ultimately approved 550 preliminary layoff notices at its February 25 meeting, with a similar number of non-teaching roles in the mix, it would seem that 104 teaching positions have been saved thanks to early retirements.

The district currently employs over 2,360 teachers, and that number will decrease next year due to retirement and attrition.

Still, it's good news, as the district moves forward to address it's significant budget gap, spurred by declining enrollment. The plan, at least for now, does not include any schools being closed in the next school year, after the board and former Superintendent Matt Wayne bungled an earlier plan to close or consolidate 11 schools, which was later rescinded.

A damning report in December found that the plan, as conceived, would have sent many kids to worse-performing schools than the ones they were previously in. The report analyzed 345 hypothetical school closure scenarios, and found that 88% resulted in better outcomes, in terms of equity, than the board's plan.

As the Chronicle notes, these preliminary staff layoff notices will be followed by a second round in May that will confirm whether each layoff is still on the table.

Related: Report: SFUSD School Closures Would Have Sent Kids to Lower-Performing Schools