Dallas schools will hand out pink slips to noncontract workers Thursday, with teachers getting their notifications Oct. 15, according to a layoff timeline given to principals Monday.

The dates are in line with those discussed with district trustees last week.

The timeline also shows that the district plans on having workers replace some employees who are cut within 24 hours. That's because the layoffs will create some vacancies that must be filled and the district will transfer other workers to those jobs.

A district spokesman did not return a message left late Monday seeking a comment on the timeline.

Last week, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said noncontract workers would be laid of on or before Friday, and that teachers would get their notice no later that Oct. 17. The timeline given to principals puts hard dates on those estimates.

DISD has already laid off about 60 central office workers and cut about 100 vacant positions in an attempt to reduce a recently-disclosed $84 million budget deficit. The district plans on saving an estimated $30 million by laying off about 1,100 workers, including about 550 teachers, and will cut another $38 million in nonpersonnel expenses.

Those cuts, though, won't fill the whole gap. Even with those reductions, administrators have acknowledged that they're still headed toward a $15 million deficit. They have not said how they will make up that gap.