Yesterday in a room packed with defiant teachers wearing red t-shirts in support of education, the School Board of Trustees adopted the 2012-2013 budget. According to this budget, schools will be staffed at 93 percent resulting in the reduction of 840 teaching positions, and the elimination of 185 literacy specialist positions. 

Let us be clear—eliminating positions doesn’t mean layoffs of teachers. We strongly believe the number of layoffs will be significantly lower.  

The Superintendent’s office is escalating the talk of teacher layoffs, using the arbitrator’s decision as its shield to move forward with this reprehensible and unnecessary action.

We must speak up!  We must organize!  On April 11, the School Board Trustees approved the tentative version of this budget, which included layoffs.  We must educate the community and parents about what is happening. 

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• No surplus meetings will take place on May 9, May 10 or May 11, 2012 and that the meeting(s) will be rescheduled at a later date.
• We will reschedule the pre-surplus meeting as soon as we receive confirmation on the new dates.
• Any Teachers who have been told that they would be surplused, remain surplused