Schools

Superintendent's Final Budget Calls for Administrative Cutbacks

Proposed fiscal year 2013 budget is a $19.6 million increase over last year.

Schools Superintendent Joe Hairston's proposed budget for the 2013 fiscal year calls for cuts in administration, a year after reducing .

The proposed $1.2 billion budget calls for $19.6 million more in spending, according to a press release from the school system. The budget was introduced at a Board of Education meeting Tuesday. Despite the spending increase, the budget is still a 2.7 percent decrease over last year's budget.

The budget is introduced at a time when school officials are projecting 1,750 more students enrolled in the fall. School officials said this is the largest projected increase in enrollment in 10 years.

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Highlights of the budget include:

  • 123.8 new teaching positions
  • the elimination of 46 administrative and central office positions
  • no furloughs or layoffs

Hairston, who is , said the budget preserves the core programs of the school system. 

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The Baltimore Sun reported that no new academic programs are being proposed.

The budget proposal will be discussed at a public hearing on Tuesday, January 17, at Ridge Ruxton School, 6916 N. Charles Street in Towson, and at a Board work session at school system headquarters on Tuesday, January 24.


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