{"id":14750,"date":"2025-10-21T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14750\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:05:07","slug":"broward-public-schools-discussing-ways-to-cut-costs-reduce-annual-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14750\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward Public Schools discussing ways to cut costs, reduce annual budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>Broward school board looking into cutting back annual budget <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Broward County school board members were in workshop discussion on Tuesday to determine ways to slim down their annual budget amid declining student enrollment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/21\/escuelas-publicas-de-broward-discuten-maneras-de-recortar-costos-y-reducir-el-presupuesto-anual\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/21\/escuelas-publicas-de-broward-discuten-maneras-de-recortar-costos-y-reducir-el-presupuesto-anual\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s something that\u2019s easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some of the proposals included reducing overtime, adjusting high school class schedules and reducing staff through attrition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They also identified areas where costs are high and on the rise, like employee healthcare benefits, and the rising cost of outsourcing school safety to municipal law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The school board instead discussed expanding Broward Schools\u2019 own police department to level out what the superintendent called a cost that\u2019s ballooning out of control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA discussion with the board to expand our police department so we can actually service our schools ourselves and be able to manage our own costs more appropriately than depending on contracts from our municipality partners,\u201d said Hepburn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There will be a future workshop with schoolboard members to discuss expanding the school district\u2019s police department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another cost cutting endeavor is emptying out the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center, located in a prime downtown Fort Lauderdale location, and moving staff onto school sites while leasing levels of the building to outside businesses as a way to generate revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Saira Anwer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/c1f7fa2d-907b-4fe7-80.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Saira Anwer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Saira Anwer joined the Local 10 News team in July 2018. Saira is two-time Emmy-nominated reporter and comes to South Florida from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was working as a reporter and anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM Updated:\u00a0October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM Broward school board looking into cutting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}