According to an article in the El Paso Times the Clint Independent School District (CISD) is cutting it’s central office staff by one third and placing that staff in classrooms.
Texas law dictates the student teacher ratios and evidently CISD was not meeting the requirements.
Remarkable
The article quotes the superintendent. It makes no mention of the district imposing a tax increase on the citizens.
Instead the superintendent is quoted as saying:
“And we will continue to find ways to reduce the administrative costs at the district so we can spend more resources in the classroom.”
How unusual.
Comparison
Maybe CISD was out of line. The other school districts may have a lower central office expense per student than CISD had. Maybe our other districts are doing better.
With the number of senior level positions being filled at the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) it does not look like it to me. Then again EPISD is bigger and maybe the ratios are normal. The Ysleta district has a lot to do before it becomes transparent enough for us to understand what is going on there.
The CISD superintendent’s statement that I repeat here “And we will continue to find ways to reduce the administrative costs at the district so we can spend more resources in the classroom” makes a lot of sense to me.
I hope that the other schools districts will make this a stated goal.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Maybe EPISD should have hired the Clint super.
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