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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Broward School Board voted Tuesday to support Howard Hepburn arsenic superintendent done 2030.
He’ll person a wage of $360,200, which represents a rise of $10,000.
“I don’t instrumentality this work lightly and I program to marque you arrogant during my continued enactment and leadership,” helium said.
The determination comes arsenic committee members volition person adjacent tougher fiscal decisions to marque successful the coming months.
Enrollment successful the territory has been declining as caller numbers amusement staffing levels person somewhat increased.
Hepburn described it past week arsenic “out of whack.”
He estimates a $75 to $80 cardinal shortfall.
“We’re moving connected a program that we’re going to supply to our committee astir however we’re going to code immoderate concerns immediately,” said Hepburn.
Board subordinate Allen Zeman is already eying imaginable cuts.
“We person 5 layers of absorption betwixt the superintendent and the archetypal 1 that’s liable for education, the principal, and the nationalist ought not to tolerate that and I won’t tolerate it anymore, but we volition not marque trade-offs that little the fig of teachers for our students.”
That’s a interest echoed by the teachers union.
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Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News successful February 2004 arsenic an duty editor. She is present a wide duty reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the elder legislative analogous for a United States legislator connected Capitol Hill.
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