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
public education, by contrast, local decisionmakers have
few or no incentives to make good use of data in assessing their
employees because
public schools face no meaningful competition.