Broward County Public Schools is bracing for serious budget cuts.
While student enrollment at Broward County Public Schools has dropped by nearly 38,000 over the last ten years, staffing numbers hardly fluctuated by comparison. Now, the school district’s financial situation is “out of whack,” said Superintendent Howard Hepburn at Tuesday’s meeting.
In their first meeting to discuss next fiscal year’s budget, school board members and district staff discussed the possibility of staff reductions in the future to account for the district’s shrinking student population and the resulting loss of funds…