Overview
- The district plans to reassign 340 school-based employees and eliminate 220 building substitute roles, moves projected to save $56 million.
- About 130 vacant central-office positions would be cut with a hiring freeze, plus trimmed contracts and other efficiencies for roughly $169 million in savings.
- Two targeted improvement efforts — the Acceleration Network and the System of Great Schools — would be ended as part of the cost-cutting plan.
- Officials say no classroom teachers will be laid off, though they acknowledge the possibility of larger class sizes as principals finalize school budgets.
- The budget will be presented to the Board of Education on March 26 with a final vote slated for May 29, and leaders say the cuts do not reduce staff at the 18 schools proposed for closure under a separate facilities plan.