Parents are peeved with Bloomberg's plan to dole out 4,100 pink slips to teachers
Saturday, May 7th 2011, 4:00 AM
Mayor Bloomberg's plans to dole out 4,100 pink slips to teachers will devastate city schools, teachers and parents said Friday.
The teacher layoffs would cause class sizes to rise across the city - and spell chaos at several schools where potentially more than half the staff could get the ax.
"I'm really disappointed," said Mary Beth Carroll, a reading teacher at the Children's School in Brooklyn, whose job has been threatened by the layoffs.
"With the population increases, I can't imagine what class sizes are going to be next year," she said, noting she and other reading teachers work with students who struggle. "The most vulnerable children will be hurt the most."
Bloomberg said Friday that the layoffs - the first since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s - are necessary due to slashed state and federal funding.
Of the 6,100 teachers who would be off the payroll, about 2,000 will retire or leaving on their own, officials said, while another 4,100 will get laid off based on the state's "last in
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