Over the last few months, Richardson ISD trustees have worked and reworked their budgets like the Apollo 13 space crew looking for those last few amps of power to get them back home. Despite a dramatic decrease in the state’s contribution to their education coffers, they think they’ve found a way to avoid teacher layoffs using a combination of measures which, when taken together, will get them back to balanced.

None of the cuts are popular with the “cuttees,” things like reducing starting salaries, freezing teacher pay and eliminating stipends for those who get Master’s degrees, but all agree they’re better than the alternative – furloughs and layoffs.

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