CPS Set to Lay Off 1,000 Teachers

This can only go over well with the Chicago Teachers Union. Chicago Public Schools is ready to lay off up to 1,000 teachers as it continues to find ways to balance an over $700 million deficit.

The layoffs include an annual reduction in staff due to school closings and enrollment declines. But they also will include small cuts to 150 supplemental teaching positions held by certified non-classroom teachers and program reductions.

Tenured teachers who lose their jobs because of enrollment issues will receive full salary for one year. Tenured teachers fired for budgetary reasons, on the other hand, are SOL but are eligible for day-to-day substitute jobs and will be given help to apply for vacant positions and establish online hiring profiles, under a new School Board policy.

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By Chuck Sudo in News on June 27, 2011 9:12 AM

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Rudypeev

Before settling in to Chicago, Brizard was the superintendent for Rochester public schools in New York. His promise to that community was to raise the graduation rate to 75%. Brizard put in only three years on the job, and exited Rochester with a 46.1 % graduation rate, which is down from 48% when he started.

nikkos

Meanwhile, Brizard and others on the school board give themselves raises and deny teacher's their contractually obligated raise. Clearly, Rahm and Brizard are trying to force a teacher strike which they can leverage to open up the teacher's contracts in order to strip it even further. They want to make teaching in the public schools as unattractive as possible so that they can dismantle it. Can there be any doubt that public education in this city is under full assault? What do you think will happen to our city when education exists only for those with pockets deep enough to pay for it?

(Edited; just got a new keyboard and learning to type all over again :) )