Admin gets cut, too

Per the T&G's cover story today and the comments on it, I thought I'd clarify: there are administrative cuts in this year's budget (as proposed), as well. The administration has proposed the cut of:

• the coordinator of team chairpersons in special ed
• school plant administrator
• 4 head teaching coaches
• literacy facilitator
• family involvement facilitator
• a school safety office position
  

• 4 grant finance clerks (the grant office and the business office have combined)
• 3 clerical positions
• 4 custodial and school plant staff

Those are all central office or systemwide positions, for a total deduction of over a million dollars. The last three positions are perhaps not quite what people mean when they say 'administrators'; even the first six positions add up to over six hundred thousand dollars.
Plus, administration is proposing merging the manager of student supports with the ELL director, which will save another $111,000. (Some of those responsibilities will be shifted elsewhere.)
It isn't all falling on the classroom this year.