The Pasadena Unified School District in California will cut 164 jobs to meet a $23 million budget gap this spring. Layoffs include teachers and administrative staff and the school board expects to save $20 million in the move. 76 of 120 classroom teachers losing their jobs are elementary school teachers. District Chief Financial Officer John [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 1, 2010
A 6.9% reduction in Nevada’s state-wide K-12 education budget was approved by legislators in a special session on Sunday. Exact layoff figures were not given, simply a promise of reduced numbers if a 2-4% salary decrease went into effect. “We have talked about the need for a ’shared sacrifice,” said Joyce Haldeman, the district’s associate superintendent [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
100 non tenured teachers in the Kaneland, Illinois school district will receive lay off notices by the school years end. The lay offs are part of an effort to mitigate the loss of general state aid to the school district next year. First, second and third year teachers will be targeted for lay offs. No [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Long Beach, California School district may lay off up to 750 employees by the end of the school year. The final number of lay offs will depend on retirements, resignations and changes in the financial circumstances of the district. Counselors, social workers, vice principals, 470 elementary school teachers, 41 middle school teachers and 145 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
500 employees will lose their jobs in the Jordan School district, located in the Salt Lake City region of Utah. 250 of these staff cuts will be teachers and the school district will increase class sizes to compensate for the loss of teachers. The district is facing an estimated $30 million budget shortfall in the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A new survey from the Labor Department says that job openings were up in September. Job openings were also up in August, making this the first two month increase since early 2007. This is good news for a struggling job market and many analysts are pointing to this as evidence that jobs are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The economic down turn continues to take a heavy toll on our education system. Two Thirds of the nation’s schools reported cutting jobs this year, and a whopping 83% expect to cut more jobs next summer. Job losses have been heaviest among aids and teachers of core subjects like Math and English. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
McGraw-Hill will consolidate its educational publishing businesses into a single group, costong 550 employees their jobs. The firm will also sell BusinessWeek magazine. The company employs 21,650 workers. McGraw-Hill cut a total of 1,045 positions last year, or 4.9% of its 21,171 employees as of the end of 2007. Founded in 1917, McGraw-Hill is headquartered in Rockefeller Center [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Seminole County, Florida School District will spend $22 million in federal stimulus money to pay the salaries of 401 school teachers, including 150 who would otherwise have been laid off. In fact, the district will hire 31 new teachers. But some job cuts will still be made, including 79 non-teaching jobs. The district says one teaching [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
The Antioch, California Unified School District Board has eliminated six top administrative positions, cutting $825,000 from the 2009-10 budget. The eliminated positions are chief academic officer, human resources director, extended education official, coordinator for student support services, and two assistant superintendents. Earlier this year the board laid off its public information officer. The school district is looking [...]
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