Florida: Broward district runs ad in NY for teachers after laying off nearly 400 of them here.

[madfloridian]

It seems that those who were laid off 8 months ago would be the first to be rehired, but apparently that is not the case.

Florida has over 11 per cent unemployed now, and the Broward Schools are running ads in NY for teachers?

Almost eight months after laying off hundreds of teachers, the Broward school district is making plans to hire for next school year -- and it's looking outside Florida.

The Miami Herald posts the ad from the New York Times.

``TEACH near the BEACH!'' read the education jobs posting in the Feb. 28 edition of The New York Times.

The ad was for the Broward school district, which is recruiting teachers this week -- in New York City. Yes, this is the same district that laid off nearly 400 teachers last summer and faces another budget shortfall that could result in more lost jobs this year.

Yet Broward is looking to the Big Apple -- as well as locally -- to find teachers to fill jobs in critical areas where there is a consistent shortage, said Rebecca Brito, the school system's director of instructional staffing.

..." With unemployment in Florida at 11.8 percent, the Broward Teachers Union doesn't think the district should be looking for prospective employees anywhere but here.

``They are threatening to lay off teachers in June, and they're going out of state in order to hire teachers,'' BTU President Pat Santeramo said. ``It does not make any sense.''

And guess where they are getting the funding for the recruiters to go north for the interviews?

Already, more than 50 applicants from the New York City area have e-mailed the district, according to Brito. Two district recruiters are heading to New York Thursday through Saturday to attend a minority teaching fair and interview the applicants.

Funding for the trip will come from a federal grant for teacher quality, which districts can use to recruit ``highly qualified'' teachers. Those are taxpayer dollars that the district should not be using to send recruiters out of state, the BTU says.

[Hannah Bell]

1. so the teachers getting fired in ny will go to florida? that must mean the fired florida teachers

will go to -- new york?

so all these "bad teachers" are going to get shuffled all over the country?

[madfloridian]

2. Yep, all those "bad" teachers.

[roguevalley]

11. new hires work for minor ducats compared to veterans. Good

luck with the mentoring.

[Starry Messenger]

3. What the...?

Who are they trying to scoop up there? I don't see any logic there either.

[madfloridian]

4. It just doesn't make sense, you are right.

They are hurting local people by doing this.

[AngryAmish]

5. Well, it is Florida...

[Better Today]

6. I guess Florida wants more liberal teachers. ,, snark off

[Better Today]

7. Oops, double tapped. Delete post.

[JCMach1]

8. Are schools job churning now?

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Something very fishy around here.

Why are they targeting New York? Whose district does this benefit?

[raccoon]

10. The New Yorkers who take those jobs will be in for a surprise.

They'll be used to belonging to teachers' unions, and I expect FL, like most Southern states, is a "right-to-work" state where unions are as rare as a black swan.

Am I right about that, Floridians?

[madfloridian]

12. We have unions, but they can only "negotiate".

And the leadership has been hijacked in many locals to go along with the privatization movement. We had some very good leaders in our local one for years, I don't know since I retired.

Nationally most are on board with Arne. ...or should I say the leaders have tended that way while the membership was unaware.

[tonysam]

13. They're doing it in Chicago, too.

Substance News: CPS hiring while cutting? What gives?

[sulphurdunn]

14. New York today.

New Delhi tomorrow.

[SoCalDem]

15. The now-cheap houses, coupled with a job opportunity might lure people there

and with "new-hires", they would not be bound by pesky agreements they used to have with the teachers they deep-sixed..

nothing new.. the southern states have been luring frozen northerners & their businesses to the south for a long time now:)