While schools are told to tighten belts and standardize staffing, the district maintains some of the highest-paid central office administrators in the country. Cabinet-level staff sit comfortably far from classrooms. Which is fine – until “tightening resources” only seems to apply in one direction.

The central office jobs that are being cut are not addressing administrative bloat (which I think would be a fair problem to target), but rather highly specialized positions that travel to classrooms around the district and, to the surprise of many, assistant principal roles.