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Monday, February 28, 2011

Scary

The DOE has released an excel spreadsheet of proposed faculty layoffs for each school.  This list was acquired off of the NY1 news website.  You can pretty much guess who is going if you know how long each of the faculty members have been in the system.

My school has been asked to lay off 5 teachers - which is 29% of the total teaching staff.  I think I just barely made the cut so I may not be vulnerable to this lay-off...

Though I am not sure how the union will protect us from lay-offs such as this, it seems like the most realistic threat thus far in a long line of threats to lay-off teachers from year to year.  Other years they didn't seem to go to the trouble to analyze how many from each school should be laid off or to go to the trouble of pounding out these spreadsheets to scare the crap out of people.

Kind of a scary time to be a young career teacher...

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