(October 15, 2008)--Several hundred Dallas schoolteachers will likely be laid off Thursday because of the district's $84 million budget deficit.
The process was delayed because the cash-strapped school district needed another day to review exactly how those teachers would be selected.
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said in a statement e-mailed Tuesday night that the district needed another day to review its plan.
Officials said years of accounting, budgeting and hiring errors at the district led to a deficit that is increasing by about a $1 million a week.
As many as 460 teachers could lose their jobs because of the shortfall.
About 215 teachers left the district last week under an employee buyout program that let workers volunteer to leave.
State Rep. Tony Goolsby has asked Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott to oversee the district's budgeting and audit process.
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