Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland have not laid off any teachers so far for the upcoming school year. Although, the class size has gone up, the staff levels are the same as they were five years ago. There are 10,271 classroom positions in the school district and the salaries have gone up slightly over [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 14, 2011
It’s a scary situation right now for school districts located in Orange County. The districts are planning next year to cut spending by $129 million as well as getting rid of 1,429 jobs, as the state of California is planning on cutting its budget by $2.3 billion. These cuts could have been even worse, but [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 14, 2011
The Dallas Independent School District will undergo an astounding number of layoffs this year. According to the district, up to 3,100 on-campus employees and teachers, as well as 800 off-campus employees, could be affected by the mass layoffs. Texas is facing a massive budget gap of over $15 billion, thus education will be struck hard [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 31, 2011
Some school district workers at Forth Worth, Texas are about to face unemployment as state officials announced plans to cut the budget for public education amid the financial crisis in Texas. State Legislatures warned various school administrators that the slated budget cuts in public education would be higher than originally planned. The budget cut is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Due to the state’s growing financial crisis, Huber Heights City Schools in Ohio announced a major cost-cutting plan that includes cutting about 46 staff plus eliminating some of its popular programs and reducing some middle school athletic teams in order to generate more revenues. Huber Heights board members revealed that the school is aiming at [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 20, 2010
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans this week to cut a staggering 10,000 city jobs. Some changes will take place immediately, and the process will continue through the end of the next fiscal year, June 2012. “More spending reductions are going to be necessary,” said Bloomberg, “and we are going to continue to reduce [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
175 Kansas City School teacher received layoff notices on Wednesday. This is just another step in the trend of layoffs afflicting the Kansas City School District. Over 1,000 employees at the district have had their jobs cut throughout the past year. At the start of the 2009 school year, the district had 3,380 employees. As [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 1, 2010
The Long Beach Unified School District is planning on laying off hundreds of teachers this school year, most recently 17 coaches at Millikan High School are in danger of being cut. According to California state guidelines, seniority and academic credentials are the determining factors when making layoff decisions. The District does have some flexibility, however, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 30, 2010
San Bernardino City Unified School District officials are considering laying off more than 400 teachers and employees before the end of the current school year. The district is currently dealing with a $30 million budget deficit for 2010-2011. In addition to the massive layoffs being considered, proposals for closing the budget gap have included shaving [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 22, 2010
Buffalo Superintendent Dr. James Williams has set forth two budget scenarios, the worse of which would mean 178 teachers to lose their jobs, 300 bus aides get cut, and 25 white collar jobs are pruned. The best case scenario outlined by Williams involves employees paying for 20 percent of their health care package (in addition [...]
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