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2011-06-21 Economy

Layoff notices for 10,000 Detroit public school employees

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Getting this kind of news reporting all the way from Iran is ironic. Clear reporting on key US-national issues from an enemy of the US, and from (supposedly friendly) MSM sources, bilge and obfuscation dedicated to the worship of 0.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-21 01:47|| 2011-06-21 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow - they have to trim a third of a billion dollars from their budget? Just how big is their budget?

So how is that teachers union working for you?

And I agree that having to get our news from Iran of all places...

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-21 08:25|| 2011-06-21 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, we can only hope Iran Press TV decides to go after the Gunwalker scandal.

Posted by Matt 2011-06-21 09:24|| 2011-06-21 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Firing everyone breaks the union contracts. Going to charter schools means the unions are not involved in the new contracts. That's going to save the district an incredible amount, not just in salaries and benefits for current staff, but also in pensions and other benefits for retirees. I seriously hope they've been better about building up savings than most Americans, because half of them are really going to need it.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-21 09:39|| 2011-06-21 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 That way somebody else has to worry about writing the pay checks...

It is not just about money. It also lets you get some teachers that can, like you know, actually teach. The Detroit school system is rotten to the core starting at the very top with a school board president who can barely write a legible sentence and has been accused of compulsively fondling himself in meetings. The high school graduation rate is allegedly 1 in four, allegedly because failed schools routinely cook the numbers - little Rashid did not drop out, he 'moved out of district'.

At the moment, Detroit has a mayor who is, for once, not a race-baiting scoundrel or felony in progress. But he is going to need super powers to go up against the unions ( mainly the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Detroit Federation of Teachers) who are fighting him tooth and nail.

Posted by SteveS 2011-06-21 10:37|| 2011-06-21 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 This happens every year in the north east. Teachers are laid off for the summer so they can collect unemployment. They are then all hired back in the fall.

How would laying them off in the summer save the school district money?

Posted by Gleregum tse Tung1512 2011-06-21 11:56|| 2011-06-21 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 80% of Detroit is illiterate so it won't matter anyways. The people who know how to read already read the signs that told them how to leave Detroit.

Posted by newc 2011-06-21 13:58|| 2011-06-21 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Robert Bobb is the Emergency Financial Manager for the Detroit Public Schools. (He used to be the city manager here, and was very good IMO.)

There may be hope for them yet.

Posted by Barbara 2011-06-21 14:15|| 2011-06-21 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 How would laying them off in the summer save the school district money?

1) no health care, insurance or vacation accrued while laid off

2) defensive action when - as is often the case - budgets aren't firmed up before the end of the spring term

Posted by lotp 2011-06-21 14:16|| 2011-06-21 14:16|| Front Page Top

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