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14 teachers sue over Missouri virtual schools cuts

By Chris Blank

Associated Press Writer / August 24, 2010

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Fourteen teachers have filed a lawsuit over state budget cuts that cost them their jobs with Missouri's virtual schools program.

According to the lawsuit, cuts last year to the virtual schools program led teachers to be laid off despite contracts guaranteeing them jobs for longer, and officials did not make the impending financial difficulties known.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education declined to comment on the lawsuit Tuesday, and the attorney general's office said it had not yet received a copy of it.

Students from kindergarten through high school can take Internet-based courses through the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program. Gov. Jay Nixon announced that he was halting funding for the school's second semester last year as part of

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