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The Daily News reported yesterday that Tweed Courthouse, the Department of Education’s headquarters, added bureaucrats to its staff as the city schools underwent millions of dollars of budget cuts. That’s true: Official records show that there were 30 more people working at Tweed this January than in January of 2008.

But outside of Tweed, in a set of administrative offices scattered across the five boroughs, DOE bureaucrats are losing their jobs. These other offices — a mix of “integrated service centers” and “school support organizations,” which help schools with tasks like managing payroll, providing food, and teacher training — lost a combined 114 staff in the last year. I don’t know the breakdown between SSO and ISC cuts, or what kind of jobs were lost; I’ve asked the DOE, and would love reader advice on this. (more…)