More answers to your teacher layoff questions: when, who, how
A week ago, I posted a Q&A about teacher layoffs and many readers left comments with more questions. Last time the questions were invented (or overheard on the subway). This time they’re from you.
My chapter leader told me layoff notices will go out on June 4. Is that true?
Not necessarily. While the union and the Department of Education discussed that date as a possibility, it depended on principals receiving their budgets by today. That has not happened — when principals logged into their internal budget system this morning they were greeted with an announcement saying their new budgets had been delayed. It didn’t say until when, so layoff notices could come out days or weeks from now.
If I lose my job, will I be placed in another school?
There are two ways of losing your job. If you are excessed, it means your school can no longer afford to keep you on staff, but you are still a public school employee and you remain on the city’s payroll while you look for a new teaching position in the system. If you are laid off, you’ve lost your job in every sense.
Remainders: Tainted drinking fountains sicken PS 20 students
My chapter leader told me layoff notices will go out on June 4. Is that true?
Not necessarily. While the union and the Department of Education discussed that date as a possibility, it depended on principals receiving their budgets by today. That has not happened — when principals logged into their internal budget system this morning they were greeted with an announcement saying their new budgets had been delayed. It didn’t say until when, so layoff notices could come out days or weeks from now.
If I lose my job, will I be placed in another school?
There are two ways of losing your job. If you are excessed, it means your school can no longer afford to keep you on staff, but you are still a public school employee and you remain on the city’s payroll while you look for a new teaching position in the system. If you are laid off, you’ve lost your job in every sense.
Remainders: Tainted drinking fountains sicken PS 20 students
- In all, 35 states applied for Race to the Top’s second round today, with 10 to 15 states projected to win.
- New Jersey turned in a Race to the Top application that ignored a deal with the teachers union.
- Water fountains apparently contaminated with antifreeze sickened students at PS 20 in Queens today.
- Arthur Goldstein urges GothamSchools as an antidote to an excess of misleading education news.
- Rick Hess is skeptical that a trifecta of school reform films will make a difference in education policy.
- Pissed Off Teacher figured out how to help a struggling student — with just nine days left with her.
- Pre-K admissions letters are out, and early registration for the scarce spots starts this week.
- Confused about whether layoffs loom, Miss Eyre wonders if she’s in for a summer of “funemployment.”
- Brooklyn’s PS 29 is mourning after a beloved cafeteria employee died suddenly last week.
- Gotham Gazette offers another explainer about the state’s giant new education law.
- Down in Alabama, a Republican group was partially bankrolled by the state’s teachers union.
- This week’s national spelling bee could see the first home-schooled champion in a decade.
- A new study says high school students will take AP classes even if they don’t get extra credit.
- Applications to Teach for America are up disproportionately from students at Christian colleges.
