Saavedra gets okay for administrative restructuring
The HISD board has approved Superintendent Abe Saavedra's plan to reduce the size of HISD's bureaucracy:
Houston schools Superintendent Abe Saavedra was given the go-ahead Thursday to radically change the district's administrative structure by replacing 13 regional offices with three.
The Houston Independent School District board voted unanimously to approve Saavedra's plan, which was outlined as a way to streamline the administration and trim as much as $4 million from the budget.
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Under the plan, each of the three administrative offices will be staffed by a regional superintendent, a regional business manager, a regional parental assistance manager and six executive principals.
Each executive principal will oversee one or two feeder patterns, which are made up of all the elementary and middle schools feeding into a high school.
Last night I saw Ted Oberg's report about this on KTRK-13 and I was surprised when he made a point of saying that while this could save $4 million, HISD's budget is over $1 billion so it would have little impact.
Those are taxpayer dollars being saved and just because Oberg doesn't think $4 million dollars is significant doesn't mean it's not. HISD is a huge operation and some streamlining and consolidation are excellent ideas. Oberg should save his personal opinion for the newsroom.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 02/11/05 09:58 AM | Houston Miscellany | Print | Comments (2)
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