Revised Boston school budget plan slashes fewer jobs

From The Boston Globe: Boston schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson has found a way to save 370 teaching and administrative positions as part of a revised budget plan, but she is still proposing the dismissal of at least 200 teachers and classroom aides. Johnson also is recommending that another key aspect of her original budget proposal be delayed. That called for scrapping the system's three student assignment zones in favor of five smaller ones to save on busing costs.

FROM FEBRUARY 2009: The Boston school district may have to eliminate at least 900 jobs, including 403 teaching positions, and explore the closure of additional schools as the system confronts its worst budget crisis in more than a decade. Superintendent Carol R. Johnson says her preliminary budget plan also would restructure the district into five smaller zones, reducing the district's skyrocketing transportation costs but limiting the number of schools parents can choose from. Read The Boston Globe article.