If you read one thing: Superintendent Mike Miles is reducing staff at HISD headquarters by nearly 25 percent, slashing 1,675 vacant positions and 672 filled jobs, according to details announced Thursday.
Where are cuts being made?
The 331-position schools office, which supports campuses with professional development and strategic planning, will be eliminated entirely. The chief academic office, operations office and human resources office will also see cuts.
The reductions in some departments are much higher than the original projections, which placed their losses in the hundreds.
Why are so many positions being cut?
The central office has been downsized as a way to begin balancing the district's budget without taking money from individual schools. Miles said Thursday that personnel and expenditures at HISD headquarters could not continue growing inversely to the district's declining enrollment.
Read Sam González Kelly's full story here.
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