.AustinISD is continuing to recruit and hire teachers days into the new school year. The district started the summer with more than 1,000 teacher vacancies. But, as of Tuesday, it had 160. | beckyfogel
Austin ISD Interim Superintendent Dr. Anthony Mays greets students on the first day of school at Zilker Elementary School.
Austin ISD has hired more than 688 new teachers for the 2022-2023 school year. The district had to hire just over 500 teachers in each of the previous two school years. The annual budget the AISD school board approved earlier this year was based on a projected enrollment of more than 74,000 students. State funding for public schools in Texas is based largely on students’ daily attendance.“How much should we worry, and how will you let us know to worry more or worry less as this comes into focus?” she asked.
“Every campus took part in this, either a principal or [assistant principal], walked to every single exterior door and tested the door on multiple features,” said Jacob Reach, AISD’s chief of governmental relations and board services.
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