HISD Continues Working to Match Displaced Teachers with Job Openings
Some positions will be open to external candidates beginning Saturday
May 18, 2011
HISD has scheduled a pair of job fairs in the coming days in an effort to fill about 200 teaching vacancies.
On Saturday, May 21, at Chávez High School (8501 Howard), middle and high school principals from throughout HISD will be on hand to interview all teaching candidates. As of Tuesday, HISD had 85 secondary school job vacancies. HISD anticipates that more than 200 pre-registered displaced and external candidates will attend. Registration is at 8:00 a.m. and job interviews will be conducted until noon.
On Thursday, May 19, HISD will conduct a job fair for 75 elementary teachers who currently work at four schools (McDade, Grimes, Rhoads, and Stevenson) that will close at the end of the school year. HISD has 112 elementary school job vacancies and most teachers at these four schools are guaranteed jobs next school year because the decision to close those schools came after the deadline for HISD to give teachers layoff notices. Thursday’s job fair will be at Gregory-Lincoln Elementary (1101 Taft) and is from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
A state law intended to protect teachers’ rights required HISD to give notice by mid-April to teachers whose jobs are being eliminated because of state budget cuts for the 2011–2012 school year. At that time, more than 700 teachers, representing roughly six percent of the district’s teaching force, were given notice. Since then, many more teachers have notified the district of their intent to resign or retire, contributing to the creation of 200-plus current job openings.
Read the full press release (.pdf).
May 18, 2011
HISD has scheduled a pair of job fairs in the coming days in an effort to fill about 200 teaching vacancies.
On Saturday, May 21, at Chávez High School (8501 Howard), middle and high school principals from throughout HISD will be on hand to interview all teaching candidates. As of Tuesday, HISD had 85 secondary school job vacancies. HISD anticipates that more than 200 pre-registered displaced and external candidates will attend. Registration is at 8:00 a.m. and job interviews will be conducted until noon.
On Thursday, May 19, HISD will conduct a job fair for 75 elementary teachers who currently work at four schools (McDade, Grimes, Rhoads, and Stevenson) that will close at the end of the school year. HISD has 112 elementary school job vacancies and most teachers at these four schools are guaranteed jobs next school year because the decision to close those schools came after the deadline for HISD to give teachers layoff notices. Thursday’s job fair will be at Gregory-Lincoln Elementary (1101 Taft) and is from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
A state law intended to protect teachers’ rights required HISD to give notice by mid-April to teachers whose jobs are being eliminated because of state budget cuts for the 2011–2012 school year. At that time, more than 700 teachers, representing roughly six percent of the district’s teaching force, were given notice. Since then, many more teachers have notified the district of their intent to resign or retire, contributing to the creation of 200-plus current job openings.
Read the full press release (.pdf).