Multiple senior-level employees who work in administrative roles for Portland Public Schools were told Monday that they will have to reapply for their jobs for the upcoming school year — and that there will not be enough positions to go around.
To help close a $50 million budget hole at the state’s largest school district, Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong unveiled an overhaul of the much beleaguered central office’s organizational chart, a move she said would save up to $2.75 million by eliminating duplicative positions.
“We are reducing 13 licensed administrative roles and consolidating responsibilities across the [academic] division, resulting in nearly a one-third reduction of central office academic administrators,” Armstrong wrote in a memo to central office staff…