I believe these workers got terminated first simply because of certain requirements so the following school year can be properly planned for. Administration z lacks such requirements, my guess is those layoffs will be coming this summer.
Get rid of useless people at central. Secretaries have a secretary. Investigate Superintendent follow the money…… they come in poor leave rich. I’ve seen it before…It’s all BS
@@marialaurel6440 - until schools are themselves independent, which happens only under a voucher system, administrators will always protect themselves.
Thats one reason and the other is we voted to pay teachers upwards to over 100k. 65k start and they can get over 100k based on experience . That makes hisd the highest paid in Texas. No city in Texas can afford that.
@SmartyHome-hu5pt we already voted last year and it got approved by us. It’s already in effect, that’s why the education budget is in the red. We’re basically paying for 2.5 teachers for every one that we should be paying. These hisd teachers are getting the bags,
@SmartyHome-hu5ptIt's happening. Educators of core subjects (English, math, and science) will make $90,000 next school year. Ancillary staff and para-professionals are *all* receiving a substantial pay increase.
Well sure let's keep using our taxes to pay not needed people just so they can work there till retirement. Look layoffs suck. But every time in life I was fired I was forced to think how to do something better. Now at 53 I've been running my own successful business for 10 years and never been happier.
@@johnnynephrite6147 not everyone. Gotta have employees. But yes start your own business. Figure out what service that you can provide to people that they want. I didnt even graduate high school. I worked hard manual labor jobs for 20 years. Figured out something I could provide myself to others. No bank loans needed. Self advertised. And after a few years word of mouth I kept getting more work. Now it's 10 years later. I'm making 6k month work 18 hours a week. Single dad so I have tons of time for my kids and no daycare needed. Maybe when they are moved out I'll pick up more jobs. But maybe I'll decide to live even smaller and just enjoy all my free time. I'm a saver so I've been crushing it since covid. Just figure out what you're good at and do it yourself. Self employed is the only way to get ahead. Most jobs you'll never get ahead and bosses suck.
I feel for these people. This is all about the budget. How much did the past elected Board of supervisors leave the district in the hole? 450 million and the FED Covid dollars are almost gone.
They can't stop someone from retirement because you don't retire from an individual district, not really. Your retirement is through TRS. They can't stop you from retiring if your numbers add up. Seriously. Individual school districts are who you work for, but TRS is who you retire with, not dependent on a school district. A school district has no say in your retirement and does not determine your date of retirement as they do not pay you directly in retirement.
@@rusticgardenretreat4892 They can retire NOW if they have the required amount of service years in. For example, they may need 8 or 10 service years and that would qualify to retire.
@@Chicago48 The NOW has got nothing to do with the school that they are working for as TRS in Texas is ran by the state. If they don't have enough years in to add to 80 (their age plus the numbers of years that they have worked) then they must find other employment. There are so many, many entities that pay into the TRS system from teaching hospital systems to prisons and more. They can get another position that pays into the retirement system and they can even switch their time in to the ERS system. I retired with TRS. I have some idea of what I am saying as it pertains to TRS. Having retired from teaching, I know that in my 29 years I saw mass layoffs many times in many different school districts in the Region IV area. Districts I worked for did the same, and one district didn't give any pay raises for 5 years to prevent layoffs. A public school job is like any other job with ups and downs. It is not a secure position and hasn't been since the 60's.
ALL staff working in education……STOP GIVING YOUR ALL TO THESE DISTRICTS .. just stop. Take your days off…. Take your vacations during the school year because they’re never loyal to you… NO district is safe or loyal.
@@willia3r If they got fired I don't think they will be able to use them; also HISD as well as other districts do not pay for unused sick days; I left quite alot when I left.
The reports have made it clear that the loss of the Covid money from us (the taxpayers) is causing the district to lose $450 million. The school board and administrators and employees knew this would end but the administrators and board did not adjust the budget over the last few years to compensate for it. Corporations have not received Covid stimulus money for the last 3 years. And no one can retire after only working 20 years. It is the students who will be hurt the most here. No one mentioned the students in this or other reports.
If they proportionally cut the same number of admin and executive positions, it could be argued that it had to be done to reduce the payroll expense across the board. What more likely happened is they gave those people made up titles to make them seem way more important than they really are then gave them raises.
Would you rather they keep paying them for doing nothing? They are closing schools so they don't need that many workers anymore. It's not rocket science.
You mean the state that's all about ensuring charter, private, and homeschooling becomes the preferred option? Why would Texas even want to help public schools?
The economy IS strong, the problem lies with how schools are funded and the mismanagement of funds. Property taxes alone are not enough to ensure our students and teachers get the quality education and resources needed to thrive and excel.
@@jennifergarza7766the economy is strong for zelinsky and Biden printing billions and putting it in their pockets while the U.S people suffer. They are letting illegals rampage and reap our tax payers benefits that we don’t even get, if they think an insurrection is so bad then why are they planning one there selves with these illegals snuck in to vote. Think of the U.S like a pizza party, our pizza is only so big and the slices can’t be cut any smaller
Not allowing them to retire alone should be a group lawsuit! Everyone needs to sue ASAP!!! The mayor, governor, and department of education need to get involved ASAP! SMH
Yeah, as a kid from the US way back, we worked the lunch room serving food, the library jobs, cleaned our classroom, gym cleaning and issue of equipment, cleaned the eating area of the cafeteria. We did a lot of the sweep and wipe jobs.
They've 32,000 students in 8 years. Did anyone think employment would stay the same? It would have been useful to mention declining enrolment in the reporting.
In most Asian countries, its the students that clean the school. Most of the money spent is towards the student in the form of new books and other essential things.
But..they just had a job fair last week!!! My support to these HISD employees was not applying for any HISD job. The state is turning HISD into a nightmare.
States have no control over INDEPENDENT school districts. Property taxes are the main revenue for School Districts, with some state and federal funding depending on the type of funding. This School District is a result of Houston continuing to vote 🗳️ for greedy Democrats.
Lately I've been losing hope for the future of this country as I watch what's going on. Less teachers means less educated people. What are kids going to do in the future without education???
The teacher to student ratio has less of an impact than the troublemaker/violent student to student ratio. When you have a classroom full of kids that want to learn they are more productive than when the students have constant interruptions from their peers. Of course, piss poor teachers are an issue as well.
Home school is where it should be anyway. I was home schooled and know a hell of a lot more than these kids today. Kids these days are idiots even upon graduation
Every school, city, library & parks department formerly had janitors & cleaning people. Now they have independent contractors. The janitors had stable employment, good pay, annual leave, sick leave, healthcare & retirement. Contractors have none of that.
@@wayneanderson8034 Those contract companies cause big money And they also need an audit and go bacl at least 10 years and see where all the money mismanagement went to
Layoffs aren’t unusual, I’ve been in the oil industry many years and when they want to cut back they don’t worry about your feelings. I believe most of these people will bounce back, but they need to look forward.
Tell that to the thousands keep getting "cut off" without hopes of retiring. Tell that to the 60 year old still working to survive. Just because a problem doesn't affect me shouldn't be an excuse to look away from the root problem. The fact they can just fire people when ever they want, and/or find any excuse to do so: Is the "glitch".
My uncle is excited about retirement, 30 years in position and want to be happy for him but didn't tell him how worried I am. I kept it inside to not spoil his joy but I am concerned what if things fold more. He will devastated and hurt, just like the people here.
It's a student shortage less students means less money for the district and they don't need as many employees parents are fed up with public education and finding alternatives
Teachers now teach woke ideology and Marxist propaganda!😂 Turn public school students into hating their country where in Communist countries, the students are patriotic and loyal!😮
I understand their situation and wish them the best. I would encourage anyone that English is not your first language please take advantage of learning the language fluently. I am disappointed that in 10 years HISD didn't offer English classes. 😇
General bond counsel attorney for the district is going to have a field day with lawsuits. They’re the real winners billing the district (taxpayer money) $400 an hour.
They lay off people to distribute the funds among themselves to $100K salaries , I work for a company where they lay off essential workers yearly but keep hiring people who make over $100K a year .
And with the millions flooding in yearly they won’t have to. We’ll be the foreigners soon enough as they create another 3rd world here that they ran from.
They never bothered to learn English, but have no problem complaining. They should be grateful they were employed without being able to speak this country's language.
Do you think they worked less hard because they don't speak English? How many languages do you speak fluently? I speak 4 fluently and many more at the conversational level.
Like it or not English isn't a required language but I think after a while they know at least some English especially when shopping and going to the movies etc.
Cut administration! Make the central office staff teach one class a day at a school. Stop paying the folks in the central office so damn much! Stop having a superintendent, assistant superintendent, and then the superintendents for each cluster of schools in the district. Ask why the personnel in the central office are making 2 to 3 times what a teacher makes! I have seen this again and again. Retired Texas here of 30 years.
I'm not in Texas, is HISD a public school district or private? (the "independent" part of their name). I wonder why administrative staff wasn't touched by this. I'll bet they hire outside custodial staff to clean the schools. The gal who said she worked there 23 years, can't she just retire anyway if she's eligible for a pension due to her length of employment, then work somewhere else part-time? Lots of unanswered questions, the reporter should have dug deeper.
Also, they got a new superintendent last summer as part of a takeover by the state. The state is now running this district and lots of admin staff quit or have been fired over the past year
@@jackanapes1492 There apparently is millions missing and the new superintendent there is a story out about his charter schools and him diverting money to them They were out if state. Something to check on this and all the facts
Very sad, these are people with families. The same thing is happening in San Diego due to poor Budget Management by the Mayor and our so-called City Leaders.
I get RAILES SO HARD on my taxes. Most of it goes to HISD. So tell me and the rest of the city, what's that money being put towards!? I say we investigate where all that money is going
If jobs were hiring these days…then yes I would agree with your statement, but it’s not that easy to get a job when companies are placing so many fake job postings.
@@user-fu4bw5ho5h They don't want to hire recent college grads because they want employees, not activists. Who wants a woke employee? They will demand unions, a 32 hour work week and get paid for 40. 45 days of PTO, mental health days and they will want to make upper 6 figures. God forbid that company do business with a corporation they don't like... they will "protest". Look at those foolish kids at Google. All 28 got fired. The jobs are out there, not for woke activist.
So employers were basically calling employees lazy or whatever when they didn’t want to return to the offices. But when they do, and they join the “family” (barf) they are treated like this. But you STILL expect us to treat your corporate job like our “family” and be all about our “team” when this is just constant. Cooperate America needs to get real. Those people aren’t your “family” and they don’t value your “core mission” and they never will because we all know this is what you think of us.
No offense, but as an American, I'm more so wondering why they've been here this long as English as a second language learners but have not learned the English language and are still speaking in their native tongue without speaking fluently in English during this news report. What is that promoting? What message does that send to other second language Learners regarding their employment here in the United states? Because it's almost offensive that we make every accommodation for non-english speakers in our school system but we can't take care of our native language Learners and workers
@@Nun195 that doesn't matter. I'm 54 years old. No other place in the world can you go and not speak or be expected to learn the native language. That's the same unwritten rule here in the United states. It does not have to be. Better yet, during citizenship classes or naturalization classes, it is clearly defined and understood that English must be learned
@@tessiesanders1that’s not true. “Americans” are notorious for going other place and not learning the language. Plenty of Ex pats that never learn the language or care to assimilate to other’s culture. Go anywhere in the world and you can pick out the “American” before they even speak. This is one of the reasons no one likes us outside the US. We expect others to do something we don’t even do when the roles are reversed. Hypocritical, imposing, self righteous Americans
@@jasonrabe1664 first of missy them accents were not even Mexican, secondly there are TONS of white people in Mexico who DONT SPEAK SPANISH, the Mexicans accommodate them by speaking English 🎯🎯🎯lastly save that energy for Melania Trumps family, the chain migration parents …she learned her English after her mail order bride gig landed her with tiny 🍆trump
They say people are having fewer children and have been for a while. Plus, after Covid many parents stuck with online schools(public or private) or chose to homeschool. Could these be some of the reasons why they were laid off?
Didn't they hire a consultant from Colorado with a history of in-debt charter schools ? Isn't TX taxpayer school money being sent out of state to cover another school's losses ?
Nope. HISD is being embezzled. A story just broke about it, moneybis literally being stolen from Texas schools to fund failing out of state charter schools.
All employees should ban together and sue the Texas Houston ISD. Find a lawyer ASAP. What are the super intendents and management salaries for this school district? Also, is this the district Mike Miles super intendent stole money from as well??
So they beenworking there for 10 or 20 years and didn't learn English? Then most jobs want people to be bilingual and speak English and Spanish. It's messed up that I have to learn Spanish to get a job in America.
That’s your take away from this story? There’s serious budget issues facing districts around Texas bc the state won’t help fund education and support teachers and students, but the custodian’s English skills are what you’re focused on. Critical thinks skills are what matter and seriously lacking on your part.
@@ethomas8550 No, they don’t. Even in Canada if you can’t speak French you can’t work. In Latin America no Spanish can’t work. Not even intermediate. If you are moving somewhere learn the language. I did when I moved to Peru and Colombia for awhile.
The city has a tax deficit and the mayor already said the city is broke. Layoffs and budget cuts were inevitable. I don't know what they expected. It's only gonna get worse
Hmmm… funny how you mention that, as if you’re trying to put people in their place, but Mexico is sending back Americans who are trying to live in their country. It may be you one day. Ignorance is bliss to you apparently…
My brother relocated to Mexico to teach over 12 years ago.... I gave up teaching here in 2006, they cant pay me enough to go back to the classroom. He dumped his US citizenship and all. The guy who brought our surname to the USA was our 5th great grandfather, before the US Revolution in the East and when the US southwest still belonged to Spain, so quit typing.
If you fire everyone with tenure, then you can open up all these "available" positions at a newly created LOWER pay scale. They NEED these workers, but they want someone to do it for $2 -$10 LESS than what they currently pay. Termination = no union contract to argue with for pay cuts.
@Nun195 I live right next to the Mexican border. If I'm in Mexico, I speak Spanish. I will especially speak Spanish if I'm on one of their news stations. Stfu with your virtue signaling, equality bullshit. We're tired! Learn the language of your host country or stop bitching. They were damn lucky to have jobs here for so long in the first place. Twenty three freaking years and you don't know English yet!?!? Smdh Point being: they didn't know English or else they would speak it! Period!
They are going to contract out the cleaning, Janitorial and cafeteria jobs, to a company to save money and prevent paying retirement benefits. They can go apply for a job with the contractor.
What a complete disaster! What was congress thinking not renewing the funding? The inflation has been uneven where costs of supplies have gone up but wages and rents and thus the tax base for income taxes have remained static.
Funds have been mismanaged at this district long before state took over. Remember when 7 schools in district were renamed because it hurt some feelings? Pepperidge Farms remembers! Millions spent for that alone.
My mom works for CFISD and they sent her a possible termination letter but they will give her a choice retire or be fired she has worked for CFISD over 30 years said this is happening
So where's the "famed" union executive's ? No communication to the union handlers ? What are paying dues all about if nobody's getting any representation ! Did the union negotiations not included any forewarning to possible layoffs ?
A lot of people can speak English but not well enough to convey things the way that they want to. They feel embarrassed to speak in English but they understand English. It also speaks to how marginalized custodians are. My dad was a custodian.
@@TheMariemarie16my grandfather was a custodian after the war because he could not get a pension being black…my grandmother a legal Mexican citizen worked an honest living and learned the English language… this comment would make sense if the workers are legal citizens, many are undocumented and that’s not fair! They also have no desire to learn English because they don’t have to let’s be real!
Why would they? Neither the USA or Texas has an official language, so what's the problem? Too ignorant to speak other languages? Ese es TU problema por no estudiar otros idiomas Those employees educated future generations of your country, and this is how you show gratitude Saludos desde NYC 🗽
That's the disgusting part. Should have been fired a long time ago. What makes these plump little midgets so special compared to somebody else doing the same job in a different industry with no Union representation. You can fire these and hire somebody else in their place for less money and train them in 20 minutes to do the same job.
@@marktwaine9344 people speak English and Spanish everywhere in NYC Just in my building there are easily 4 different languages besides English. There's a family on the first floor that speaks Amharic. But glad you're happy on your little world
