[Iran Press TV] All 10,000 Detroit Public Schools employees are getting layoff notices as the financially troubled district faces continued budget problems. District spokesman Steve Wasko says the move will allow "maximum flexibility for staffing."Starting over from scratch seems to be the way to allow maximum flexibility...
District officials say they're aim is to trim a $327 million budget deficit.
... by firing everybody...
The layoffs are effective July 29, the last day of summer school. In April, the district said 5,500 teachers would get layoff notices.
"Have a nice summer vacation! Write if you get work!"
The district has also recently approved eight charter school conversions and plans to close 20 school building through 2012. The district is expected to save up to $13.3 million by the closures and chartering of schools.
That way somebody else has to worry about writing the pay checks...
Because of the failing economy, American public school budgets are being cut and teachers are being laid off.
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a proposed 2011-12 budget, which the school board is scheduled to vote on June 23, calls for a 6.1 percent tax increase and anticipates more than 100 teacher layoffs.
The union says school funding is in crisis, when in reality, spending is unsustainable. Because of collective bargaining agreements, many school districts' hands are tied and layoffs are the only option. They can't save money by changing employee health insurance policies, or obtaining salary freezes or wage concessions, because the unions won't allow it.
President Obama's education stimulus package accomplished two things: it temporarily maintained artificially large school employment levels and created the layoff "crisis" that school boards are now grappling with.
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