Houston ISD will set the new school year in motion with nearly 750 fewer teachers than last year, Superintendent Mike Miles said in a letter Wednesday.
Miles attributed the staffing drop to a necessity to adjust staffing to match student enrollment at each campus, an apparent sign of the school district’s student decline.
“Previous HISD administrations chose not to adjust staffing at schools that lost enrollment, and HISD simply cannot afford to overstaff these campuses any longer,” Miles said in the letter.
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