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OPSB: No new hires for rest of fiscal year
The Ouachita Parish School System will hire no new permanent employees, including teachers, for the rest of the current fiscal year. School board members needed little time to give unanimous approval to a partial hiring freeze at last Thursday's meeting.
The board acted on a recommendation from a committee formed to address an estimated $3 million budget shortfall. The revenue gap resulted mainly from two factors over which the system has little control: a multi-million dollar increase in the costs of employee retirement and health care benefits, and a third year without an increase in state funding per student from the Minimum Foundation Program.
The system's business manager, Juanita Duke, said employee salaries and benefits make up about 86 percent of the budget, so there will have to be reductions in staff. Those will come mainly through attrition. Teacher and vital support staff vacancies will be filled by hiring qualified fulltime but temporary substitutes, or through shifting staff around. That way, Duke said, they won't have to eliminate any positions or "fire anyone."
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