Parents in the Levittown N.Y. are upset over the possibility of more than 100 teacher layoffs. The Levittown school district was originally not going to be affected by the layoffs, but the residents are now being told that their district may be the hardest hit. You union and the district are attempting to negotiate in [...]
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...Thursday, February 17, 2011
Los Angeles Unified School District is facing up to 7,300 layoffs in the coming weeks as the board looks to close a $408 million budget gap. The board has already sent out a massive amount of notices, notifying around 5,100 teachers and 2,200 administrators that they could lose their jobs on June 30th should no [...]
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 [...]
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...Friday, August 20, 2010
Good news for Detroit Public Schools this week, another round of hundreds of previously laid off teachers have now been told they will not lose their jobs. Last week, 745 teachers were told they would keep their job. According to district spokesman Steve Wasko, another 215 teachers will have their layoffs rescinded by next week. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
During spring of this year, school districts across Georgia expected massive layoffs in the face of drastically reduced state money. Up to 9,000 people were expected to receive layoff notices statewide. Two factors have since come together in order to mitigate the number of jobs lost. First: nearly 2,000 people were able to retire or [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
51 teachers and teacher assistants were laid off in Lamar County and Forrest County, Mississippi over the weekend. The job cuts were spread over four school districts in the largely rural part of Mississippi. The majority of those laid off, 32, were teacher assistants earning less than $20,000 per year. “It’s not easy,” Petal School [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
The federal jobs bill that was signed into law last week includes $1.2 billion earmarked for California schools. With the money, school districts across the state are expected to rehire some 16,500 teachers who were laid off at the end of the last school year. Most school districts are loath to begin hiring, however, since [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
It’s official. After stalling for months in the Senate, a $26 billion federal aid bill was today signed into law by President Obama. The Bill includes $10 billion that is designed almost exclusively to save the jobs of teachers who would otherwise have been laid off by cash-strapped school districts in dozens of states. Secretary [...]
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