Providence RI Fires Nearly 2000 Public School Teachers

[walldude]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/providence-ri-fires-all-its-public-sc

PROVIDENCE — After two hours of contentious discussion, the School Board voted 4 to 3 Thursday night to send out termination notices to each of the city’s 1,926 public school teachers.

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Many of the teachers were caught off guard by Mayor Angel Taveras’ decision to terminate teachers instead of laying them off. Last night, speakers questioned the mayor’s rationale: a $40-million school budget deficit and a March 1 deadline by which the School Department must notify teachers if their jobs are in jeopardy.

“This is a quasi-legal power grab,” said Richard Larkin, a teacher at Classical High School. “You want to pick and choose teachers. Well, we will not be bullied.”

<...> Teachers begged the School Board to issue layoffs rather than fire them outright because, under the layoff provisions, teachers are recalled based on seniority. There is no guarantee that seniority would be used to bring back any of the fired teachers. School leaders have been vague about exactly how seniority will play out in the case of terminations.


I'm sure that these teachers all feel like the Democrats are doing everything they can to make sure they don't get screwed... Oops.. too late. Bend over.

[MadMaddie]

1. Stunning

These politicians are so afraid of raising taxes on the rich they punish the working class.

WTF?

Meanwhile in other news...U.S continues to spiral down to the bottom of the list in quality education.


This is the Republicans wet dream.....

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The floggings will continue until morale improves. (nt)

[walldude]

3. Well I see today is not a day for supporting teachers...

Tomorrow is probably not looking good either.

Oh well, those poor politicians are having such a hard time I guess we ought to be a little nicer and not post mean things like the facts or the truth.



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I'm going to play my guitar, I'm wasting my time here.