Seems to me I remember former school board member Garth Hebert presenting doomsday scenarios involving layoffs of 500-600 employees resulting from cuts to Guilford County Schools.
Guess what —Superintendent Mo Green’s budget would cut 100 jobs. Do I even need to mention most of those cuts would come through attrition or reassignment?
Commission Chairman Skip Alston says he doesn’t “think there’s going to be really any increases at all anywhere.” With that in mind, note this interesting response from a school board member:
The total budget of $664.1 million represents an increase of 2 percent. The operating budget would amount to $619.3 million.
School board member Paul Daniels believes that budget belies claims by officials that the district has to make do with less. Instead, spending continues to go up, he said.
“We always seem to weather this thing,” Daniels said. “Whenever we need money for something, we always seem to find it somewhere.”
Indeed they do.
