Indiana is cutting its budget for higher education by $150 million due to a shortfall in state tax revenues. As a result, the president of Indiana State University says that anywhere from 80 to 100 non teaching jobs will have to be cut to shave $5 million off of the school’s operating costs. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
5200 teachers in Connecticut will keep their jobs thanks to $612 million for education from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Federal officials had singled out Connecticut for using the money to shore up holes in its budget instead of investing in schools, prompting state officials to show that they had spent the money [...]
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, May 15, 2009
Eleven of the 23 Los Altos, California School District teachers who got pink slips in March will not lose their jobs, in a last-minute reprieve. Retirements, and a rise in kindergarten enrollment allowed the district to rehire or cancel layoff notices for the 11 teachers. The jobs of the other 12 teachers end today, although eight [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 27, 2009
Connecticut public school superintendents surveyed say at least 933 teaching positions may be eliminated for the next school year. Superintendents were asked how many teaching positions they recommended for elimination in the budgets they presented to their local school boards. The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents says the number may grow once the superintendents’ proposed budgets [...]
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
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