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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Funny thing about the agreement to prevent layoffs « JD2718

Funny thing about the agreement to prevent layoffs

I may be the only teacher in NYC who is hurt by the no-layoff agreeement

After months of Bloomberg threatening layoffs of teachers, there will be none. He’s been moving towards them for two years. And we said all along, layoffs were not necessary. And we were right.

What did yesterday’s deal do? We’ll have to look in the fine print to see if there’s any fine print. But what everyone knows now:

  1. No layoffs.
  2. Redeployment of ATRs (this one especially, we want to read about the details. )
  3. Extra resources from