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Map: How Full-Time Support Staff Jobs Have Changed In Your County Schools

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A StateImpact Florida analysis of jobs in Florida public schools shows that while full-time staffing is almost back to pre-recession levels, one group of employees hasn’t come back: the support staff.

Since the recession began, Florida’s public school budgets have been hit with more than $2 billion dollars in cuts from state and federal funding, decreased property tax revenue and sequestration.

StateImpact Florida has been following the resulting layoffs and hard choices in schools across the state.

Some of the funding has since been restored. Full-time instructor positions have inched back to pre-recession levels.

But at the start of last school year there were still about 15,000 fewer full-time jobs in Florida public schools than there were in 2007. Almost all of those jobs — 99.5% — are support staff positions. Custodians, secretaries, classroom aides—there just aren’t as many people filling those roles anymore.

Want to know how your school district compares? You can see a map of county-by-county changes in full-time support staff below:

Click on each county to see how many support positions have been gained or lost.

Have you felt the changes in staffing at your school? Tell us in the comments section below.

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