Over 130 jobs will be cut with the Atlanta Public School’s Board of Education approval of a $1.3 billion budget for the 2025-2026 school year.
The approval of the budget was backed by the school board official’s emphasis that the elimination of these positions was an “emphasis on a back to basics approach”.
“Atlanta Public Schools deserves to be exceptional,” said Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson after the vote. The drive for me, the call for me, is frankly not just about Atlanta, it’s about the significance of Atlanta to the nation, in regards to public education,” Johnson said.
While the majority of cuts will come from Central Office positions, the cuts will see a $25 million decrease in expenditures.
“This move is part of a broader effort to identify and eliminate redundancies in administrative costs and resources, reallocating those savings to classroom and school budgets,” school board officials said of the cuts.
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