Thursday, September 2, 2010

This Week In Education: Budgets: Chicago Using Obscure Maneuver To Wipe Out NBC Teachers

This Week In Education: Budgets: Chicago Using Obscure Maneuver To Wipe Out NBC Teachers

Budgets: Chicago Using Obscure Maneuver To Wipe Out NBC Teachers

Sunny Neater-DuBow

Chicago has created a Byzantine mish-mash of procedures and rationales for laying teachers off - no one (including the district) really knows how many teachers have been laid off or for what reasons. I wrote about this a few weeks ago in the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog (The willy-nilly nature of teacher layoffs), focusing on a young but tenured NBC teacher named Sunny Neater-DuBow. Now more details are out in this Chicago