The proposed cuts include teaching jobs, an early-childhood hub and special lunch menus as the district faces expiring federal pandemic relief funds and a $107.5 million budget gap.
Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez said the cuts are necessary because city funding has remained flat for the last ten years and tuition costs have skyrocketed.
Superintendent Mark White has been waiting for this moment for years. Back when he was an earth science teacher, he wanted to take his students out to see an eclipse that was passing over the North Country. But school officials foiled his plans.
The solutions start with district leaders lobbying for new state policies, such as redrawing districts intentionally to serve a more racially and economically diverse mix of communities, a new report advises.
Solving today's challenge will require something more fundamental than either tech solutions or event planning: people working together to build close-knit school communities.
"We're changing lives," says Alabaster City School District Superintendent Wayne Vickers who declares they're looking at a 99% graduation rate this year. Here's how he's turned the district from "good" to "great."
Community members, including PSD teachers and other employees, have also expressed concern about the growth of administrative positions at the district's central office.
In New York, Superintendent Carmine Peluso is moving to the Churchville-Chili Central School District from the Rochester City School District. Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan has promoted interim leader Jazz Parks to become its next superintendent
A superintendent's time horizon is longest of all: budgeting, capital projects, strategic initiatives and changing state requirements—and this is the time to prioritize those issues.
