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Schools across the country are announcing teacher and staff layoffs as districts brace for the end of a pandemic aid package that delivered the largest one-time federal investment in K-12 education.
The legality of teacher strikes vary from state to state. Collective bargaining by public sector employees and therefore teachers is explicitly illegal in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. 12 states have explicitly stated that teacher strikes are legal.
Laying off junior employees first is not exclusive to the education sector or to the United States, but is perhaps most controversial there. LIFO's proponents claim that it protects teachers with tenure and gives them job stability, and that it is an easily administered way of accomplishing layoffs following a budget cut. LIFO's critics respond ...
Dozens of Providence Public School District students staged a walkout Tuesday in support of more than 50 teachers being pushed out of their jobs with notices that their contracts will not be renewed.
LINCOLN PARK — Nearly 20 teachers and other staff are facing layoffs at the end of the school year as the borough school district grapples with a projected budget shortfall of more than $2 ...
More than 200 teachers and residents packed the Lincoln Park Board of Education after news of a budget crisis that may lead to staff cuts. ... A drastic budget deficit will require layoffs and ...
Surveying layoff rules for teachers in other U.S. jurisdictions, the court found that as of the trial (January 27 to March 27, 2014) [31] 2 states provided that seniority could not be considered; 18 states and the District of Columbia left the layoff criteria to school district discretion; 20 states provided that seniority could be considered ...
Shortly before school began in September, administrators in Schenectady, New York, laid off more than 400 teachers, aides and other employees -- roughly one out of every five school workers. Now ...