Houston ISD's state-appointed superintendent will cut over 500 jobs

[Igel]

1. That's what reorganizations do.

Recently read (it might be a bit off) that Harvard has more administrators than it has students, 3x the number of faculty members.

Houston ISD's administration's like my district's--it's bloated. Not as bad as Harvard, to be sure, but bloated.

At the same time, at the 29 schools targeted there are changes--curriculum's being streamlined, centralized; there'll be aides that deliver lesson plans and handle paperwork for teachers, so teachers focus on content delivery (the lesson plans delivered are optional and can be tweaked, to be sure--that's explicitly stated, but newer teachers will probably really like this a lot). While teachers can still get behind, the goal is the same in most districts--if a student in 3rd grade or in 9th grade biology changes schools in district, there shouldn't be more than a one or two day difference in instruction.