By EVA MOSKOWITZ The New York Post Regrettably, it now appears likely that budget cuts will require teacher layoffs in New York City public schools. These will be based solely on seniority under the current teachers-union contract. In Washington, DC, however, they’ve taken a different approach.
By Katherine Bradley and John Hill Washington Amid the controversy over the D.C. public school system’s Oct. 2 layoffs of more than 220 teachers, a novel and important fact keeps getting buried. The District’s layoffs did not follow the tradition of “last hired, first fired” common to other school district employment practices. Instead, principals made [...]
BY JOHN MOONEY Star-Ledger Staff Some districts see tax relief, others layoffs As school budgets go before voters April 15, the state’s effort to reform school funding is clearly having an impact –from tax relief in some places to threats of teacher layoffs in others. Gov. Jon Corzine and the Legislature recently boosted school aid [...]
By MATT KATZ Courier-Post Staff WINSLOW Hundreds of parents and teachers filed into the middle school Tuesday night expecting to watch the school board carry out an unusual emergency cost-cutting measure: Laying off 37 teachers and teaching assistants in the middle of the school year. Instead, immediately following the Pledge of Allegiance, Superintendent Daniel Swirsky [...]