DETROIT, MI. (AP) -- Detroit Public Schools administrators say they'll present the school board next week with a $463.5 million cost-cutting plan. Michigan's largest school district is under state pressure to balance its books or risk the appointment of an emergency manager to oversee its spending.The district has scheduled a special school board meeting Monday to consider the cuts.
The Detroit News says cuts include reducing staff in response to smaller enrollment, union concessions, reduction in office supplies and hiring non-teachers for lunchroom duty. The district says the plan would save $172.6 million by June, about $174.4 in the following year and about $116.5 in the year after that.
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