It looks like bad news is coming to another group of civil servants in the state of California. The Long Beach Unified Board of Education is getting ready to approve a new budget and that budget is expected to include the layoffs of several hundred workers. Those cuts, which are expected to include at least [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 17, 2011
The Emergency Manager for the city of Detroit, Roy Roberts, has made a recent announcement to lay off of 87 Detroit Public School teachers. He said that the decision is based on the total student head count for the district, which was completed on October 5th as the reason for the decision. According to DPS [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 3, 2011
The Long Beach Unified School District is facing massive budget cuts along with the rest of California. As a result, the district will be closing two schools, increasing class sizes, and letting go of over 400 teachers. The affected teachers, who will be let go based on seniority, will be notified in March. The board [...]
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 19, 2010
Pennsylvania’s governor, Ed Rendell, has announced that approximately 100 layoffs are needed to the state’s payroll. Pennsylvania officials initially projected that they would need to cut hundreds of jobs in order to balance their $28 billion budget for the fiscal year of 2010-11. However, after more retirements occurred than was expected, a hiring freeze was [...]
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
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
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...Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A wave of relief has been sent out across the country as the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Obama’s $26 billion state aid bill on Tuesday. The bill consists of two parts: $16 billion in state Medicaid funding and $10 billion to save nearly 300,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters, and police officers from being laid [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
Governor Chet Culver of Iowa said Monday afternoon that $96 million in aid from the federal jobs bill could save the jobs of up to 1,800 teachers. Like dozens of states nationwide, Iowa faced an eight-figure budget deficit during the last fiscal year. To close the gap Culver cut the state budget by 10 percent [...]
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