Sentences with phrase «districts laying off»

So, let's see — if we indeed have a shortage, why exactly are districts laying off teachers?

Under previous and current state law, districts laying off tenured teachers must do so in order of seniority, a practice known as «last in, first out,» or LIFO.

The Syracuse school district laid off teachers.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

Districts laid off or eliminated some 80,000 teaching jobs between 2008 and 2012 during the recession.

In California, for example, districts laid off tens of thousands of teachers during the recession.

When the Los Angeles Unified School District laid off thousands of teachers last spring, the school where I teach, Markham Middle School in Watts, was decimated.

California school districts lay off teachers... then two legislators move to fix the «teacher shortage problem.»

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Now all of these states economies are getting better while teachers are getting laid off, our freaking district can't afford paper so we get class copys and use our own papers as answer sheets.

Chicago Public Schools began laying off 200 lunchroom workers Friday in the latest round of pink slips issued by the cash - strapped district.

Washington (CNN)- Education Secretary Arne Duncan says a West Virginia school district is laying off teachers due to deep spending cuts across the federal government set to take effect on Friday.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

In their response to the budget short falls, districts have turned to not only laying off teachers and staff but to closing entire school buildings.

As for the Assembly Democratic conference, Heastie said: «We don't want to go home and then in September hear that school districts have to lay people off because they haven't received the funding from the budget because of the linkage of the teacher evaluation and the funding.»

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Barricades that lined Wall Street since Occupy Wall Street protests started six weeks ago were taken down Wednesday — a day after a neighborhood restaurant owner told DNAinfo the barriers forced him to lay off 21 workers.

In return, the district guaranteed no teachers will be laid off as long as voters pass the budget.

Without that borrowing, Contreras says the district would need to lay off 350 more teachers.

The event was called by Local 372 of District Council 37, which represents the lion's share of the workers being laid off.

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

The Cleveland school district is so fiscally maimed that it will close seven schools in June, lay off 700 Cleveland Teachers Union members — including 643 of 3,600 classroom teachers — and 68 paraprofessionals.

Corbett, a Republican, proposes chopping $ 34.1 million from the Pittsburgh public schools, slashing funding for state universities, giving a free hand to districts in laying off teachers and imposing a one - year freeze on the wages of public school employees.

When Cuomo first announced the bond act, school groups gave the proposal a lukewarm reception, arguing that any additional funding would be better spent to restore recent cuts in aid that have forced some districts to lay off teachers and eliminate programs.

Thirty school aides have been laid off in District 10.

This salary is of course being paid by the same taxpayers who a week ago voted to terminate numerous teachers in the Clarkstown School District and lay off over 50 Teaching Assistants.

Fairchild said back then, the district had to lay off several positions, even ones with tenure.

After the school district in Beaverton, Oregon, announced its latest round of budget cuts, teacher lay - offs and increases in class sizes, Jack and Julia's parents decided to enrol them in the state's full - time online school, Oregon Connections Academy.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce.

But we found out, by like 90/10, that if there were a federal contest, with seven hundred million dollars at stake, at a time when we're talking about laying off teachers in districts all over the place, New York State should be doing everything they can to win it.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

A final way in which seniority - based systems may have consequences for student achievement is that strict adherence to seniority would require at least some districts to lay off teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, such as math and special education.

The moves will enable the district to lay off 200 teachers and other school workers and chop $ 7.3 million from a projected...

The decision has already influenced other California school districts, including San Francisco and Sacramento, to stop blindly laying off teachers — and the lawsuit could be a model for more ambitious legal action in other states.

However, were districts to adopt policies that allowed administrators to dismiss teachers according to their effectiveness rather than their seniority, they could lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and increase the overall efficacy of their teaching force.

«If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce,» Goldhaber and Theobald concluded.

However this latest set - to is resolved, Washington joins the swelling ranks of school districts forced to lay off teachers, cancel textbook orders, trim summer - school plans, raise school - lunch fees or take other measures to close budget gaps caused by falling state tax revenues.

Finally, starting with the least effective teachers in each district and moving up the effectiveness ladder, enough teachers are assigned to a hypothetical layoff pool to achieve a budgetary savings for each district that is at least as great as the budgetary savings each district would have seen had all the teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 actually been laid off.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

As noted earlier, one of the prevailing critiques of seniority - based layoffs is that it is necessary to lay off more teachers in order to attain a specified budget objective than it would be if districts used alternative criteria.

We calculate that districts would only have to lay off 132 teachers under an effectiveness - based system in order to achieve the same budgetary savings they would achieve with 145 layoff notices under today's seniority - driven system, a difference of about 10 percent.

But right now districts must lay off teachers.

The letter noted that the district had already cut $ 150 million in costs and laid off 900 employees in recent years.

To move the district toward financial stability, Roberti closed 16 schools and laid off 14,000 employees, 200 of whom were central office personnel, critical players in the school cartel.

Nearly 500 teachers, administrators, and other staff members in the 47,000 - student Buffalo, N.Y., school district are scheduled to be laid off Dec. 1 in an effort to eliminate a $ 28 million budget shortfall.

The law had an impact on districts during the early 1990's, when the economic recession forced some districts to consider laying off teachers.

Because districts» budgets have already been trimmed elsewhere in the past few years, many school boards now face the difficult decision of whether to lay off teachers in order to balance their books.

About 1,500 miles to the north, the school budget in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has fallen so far behind its needs that the district has had to lay off more than 60 staff in the past four years, reports Ed Shoucair, president of the Gloucester Education Foundation.

According to the Star - Ledger, the district is considering laying off nearly 400 employees, including 150 teachers — and that could be Anderson's war.)

Those savings, and some timely retirements, helped the district recall 10 employees who had been laid off due to budget issues in the previous year.