The Dallas Independent School District has cut 150 non-contract jobs in another layoff meant to help fill an $84 million-dollar budget hole. Jobs affected include clerks, custodians, and teacher’s aides.
Another 100 vacant positions were also eliminated.
Next week, the district plans to eliminate 550
teaching positions. Administrators will also see a purging of the ranks.
“It’s going to be emotional, because no matter what they’re doing to us in the DISD, teaching has to continue,” Bryan Adams High School teacher Diane Birdwell told the Dallas Morning News.
The DISD has blamed the deficit on
accounting problems and “position creep” -- jobs added when campuses hired more teachers than warranted by their enrollments.
Critics say administrators -- including Superintendent Michael Hinojosa -- should have been at the top of the layoff list.