Orange County Public Schools will cut more than 200 district-level administrators as it grapples with the impacts of declining enrollment, an OCPS deputy superintendent said in a sobering email recently sent to staff.
The district lost thousands of students this school year, will close seven schools this summer as a result and expects enrollment to drop by another 10,000 pupils in the next five years.
Now OCPS is implementing 3% cuts across all district departments, “resulting in the elimination of more than 200 positions,” because of enrollment-based funding losses and to avoid eliminating teaching positions, Deputy Superintendent Jose Martinez wrote to staff Sunday…