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Utica schools outline hiring push, PowerSchool rollout as central to fixing staffing shortages
Summary
District HR outlined recruitment and retention priorities for 2024–25 — recruiting at statewide career fairs, TA certification pathways and a planned PowerSchool rollout to streamline hiring and onboarding — and pledged a timeline for PowerSchool at the next board meeting.
The Utica City School District on Aug. 28 presented an extensive human-resources briefing that set recruitment, retention and diversity as the administration’s top priorities for the 2024–25 school year.
Sarah, the district human-resources representative, told the board the department has posted roughly 84 job postings and completed about 300 instructional interviews this summer and has hired 221 employees since Sept. 18, 2023. She said 72 instructional positions were listed in the 2024–25 budget, including 51 positions in teaching and related services that remain priorities to fill.
The report emphasized three lines of work: ramping up recruitment activity (career fairs, college partnerships and targeted outreach), improving retention…
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