{"id":248781,"date":"2026-04-27T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:53:07","slug":"broward-school-board-to-consider-job-cutting-plan-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248781\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward School Board to consider job-cutting plan Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Broward School Board is expected to vote Tuesday on a district reorganization plan that would result in hundreds of job cuts.<\/p>\n

The recommended plan by Superintendent Howard Hepburn would create 10 new jobs while cutting 809 jobs, 306 of which are currently filled. The plan would save about $40 million. The district is grappling with budget cuts due to years of declining enrollment.<\/a><\/p>\n

School Board members discussed Hepburn\u2019s first draft<\/a> of the plan on April 21 and voiced concerns that the plan might cut too many teachers and lower-level employees and too few top administrators. Hepburn disputed that characterization, saying the district cut a larger percentage of high-paying jobs. The total of lower-paying jobs proposed to be cut is larger because the district has far more of those jobs than high-level ones, he said.<\/p>\n

His revised organization chart, which the School Board is expected to vote on Tuesday, includes a few changes from his plan last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that much has changed,\u201d Hepburn said Sunday on \u201cThis Week in South Florida.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten some direction from the board for some shifts. \u2026 But nothing much has changed overall to the organizational chart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the proposed changes:<\/p>\n

\u2014 The chief facilities officer and chief operations officer, which are both vacant, would be combined into one higher-paying job called chief operations and facilities officer.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Two supervisors and two coordinators in leadership development in the academics department would be reduced to one position each.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Three coordinators of suicide prevention and two supervisors of mental health services would be cut, with people in other jobs taking over those functions.<\/p>\n

\u2014 An assistant director of artificial intelligence and digital learning job would be cut, while a director of AI would get a new name, director of instructional innovation and digital learning.<\/p>\n

The changes do little to allay the concerns of Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco, who complained that the district is cutting too many teacher positions<\/a>. A chart prepared for Tuesday\u2019s meeting shows 111 filled jobs that are represented by the teachers\u2019 union being cut.<\/p>\n

Hepburn has said all of these positions are based in district offices, not schools. Fusco told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that\u2019s misleading. She said many jobs are held by teachers who work directly in schools, even though they aren\u2019t directly based in one.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s saying these are district jobs,\u201d Fusco said. \u201cEvery job we have is a district job.\u2029It literally says that under contract. You may not be guaranteed the same school. You\u2019re guaranteed a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fusco said that Hepburn\u2019s latest revised chart does little to adhere the School Board\u2019s request to cut more administrative jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t see that in this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A special School Board meeting to vote on the plan is expected to start at 3 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broward School Board is expected to vote Tuesday on a district reorganization plan that would result in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[113,249,251,250,266,115,109,32797],"class_list":["post-248781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-education","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-florida-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248781","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=248781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}