Residents of the Schuylerville area will be voting together on the 15th of May for a budget proposal, which will cause even more cuts to be made. This means that a string of layoffs will likely follow through, along with the elimination of different school programs, which while negatively impact the students in many ways. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 13, 2012
It looks like bad news is coming to the Los Angeles Unified School District and it just might cut back on the number of educators who are currently working for them. The school district has to make some serious cuts to the budget, which will come out in the next couple of weeks. The notices [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
The New York School System is getting ready to release 716 of the cities lowest-paid workers in order to correct its budgetary issues. The pink slips have already been released and if no special arrangements are made by Friday they will lose their jobs. The jobs slated to be lost, which are spread out over [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 20, 2011
The Clark County District School Board will lay off at least 1,834 employees, and potentially many more, in an attempt to bridge a $407 million budget gap. The school district’s fiscal 2012 budget, unanimously approved by the board on May 18, incorporates proposed concessions from the district’s four unions and an upwardly revised tax revenue [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Six education groups held a press conference on Monday, April 5, and predicted that Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s freeze on state spending for Iowa schools will make it necessary for schools to layoff more than 1,500 employees. The six groups include: Area Education Agencies, the Iowa Association of School Boards, the Iowa State Education Association, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 23, 2011
School districts all over the nation are facing cuts to their budget and staff on a daily basis, and Cleveland Metropolitan School District is no exception. The interim CEO of the school district, Peter Raskind, has proposed closing seven schools and laying off 835 school employees, as well as not replacing 135 employees that are [...]
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...Friday, March 4, 2011
Another school district in Texas has announced large scale layoffs in the face of budgetary shortfalls. Georgetown Independent School District in East Texas is passing out pink slips to 142 employees this week. 61 of the cuts will be teachers, with the bulk of the remainder of the cuts targeting support staff. The layoffs are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The San Diego Unified School District is planning to cut a little over 900 full time positions for next year in response to a $120 million budget deficit. Many of those positions are actually shared by multiple part time employees so the total number of layoffs will exceed the number of positions being cut. Most [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 9, 2011
School district U46, in Elgin Illinois, is issuing reduction in force notices to 132 employees, 53 of whom are teachers. According to district spokesman Tony Sanders, these are routine layoffs and not related to the budget. Each year the school board lays off employees whose positions are paid for by grants or teachers who are [...]
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