Texas Watchdog made formal public information requests of the 10 largest school districts in Texas for teachers and other education profession staffing for the 2010-2011 and 2011-12 school years.

We used information provided by the districts to build this story showing that relatively few teachers were actually laid off following state budget cuts to education last year.

The Houston, Dallas, Cypress-Fairbanks, Northside (San Antonio), Austin, Fort Worth, Fort Bend, North East (San Antonio), and Arlington independent school districts responded to our requests. You can find the data here, as well as a comparison on teacher staffing in 2011 and 2012 here.

The El Paso Independent School District asked for an extension to respond to our request, but did not comply.

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