Eliminating positions, closing schools, other possibilities on the table
School is still supposed to be out for summer but Austin ISD’s budget problems are so bad that the board of trustees is already back to work.
So Thursday’s meeting was less an exploration of the VATRE and more an appeal to the public to tune into a different, less-known reality: That no matter what happens with the VATRE, the district will need to make painful budget cuts for the next two years. The district already trimmed $30 million in last year’s budget, mostly by eliminating positions in the central office. As that process unfolded, district leaders stressed that they wanted to reduce the impact on teachers and classrooms. On Thursday, Reach said that this time the district wants to avoid ending programs entirely or enacting large, across-the-board cuts.
“We are not at a point where we’re going to give a recommendation on cuts,” Segura said. “The plan is that we go through the process. We’ll bring fiscal recommendations before the board in late September, early October, and the plan will have multiple phases in it. All the cuts in our operations can’t be taken in this current fiscal year – it’s going to be a multi-year process.
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