Schools plan would fire 1,400By Jake Wagman © 2003 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
updated: 08/03/2003 12:39 AM
More than 1,400 employees of the St. Louis Public Schools would be laid off in a budget plan that will be presented this week by the district's new management team.
The budget provides a new blueprint for an organization that has been criticized as costly, inefficient and bloated with bureaucracy. If approved, the plan would cut dozens of administrators, hundreds of clerks and teacher aides and eliminate entire departments in favor of private vendors.
Under the plan, the district's full-time work force would decrease to 4,797 from 6,260. No current classroom teacher would be let go, and the district is looking to fill 242 teaching positions. About 330 teaching spots will remain vacant.
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