The layoffs or "furloughs" of teachers will become common over the next 4 months as Pennsylvania School Districts finish their budgets. Corbett's budget really provides few choices to school districts - especially poorer rural and urban school districts that will experience the most severe funding cuts.
Here's a sampling of articles of what is to come:
Philadelphia:
http://www.thenotebook.org/march-2011/113402/teachers-brace-layoffs-reassignments"the District is expected to learn in the coming weeks the final size of its budget shortfall for 2011-12, which officials acknowledge may exceed $400 million. A likely result is that individual school budgets will be slashed, class size increased, and teacher positions reduced across the board.
The probable outcome of all the tumult: hundreds of displaced teachers competing for a limited number of vacant positions and the first large-scale teacher layoffs in the city in two decades."
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http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110317/NEWS/103170325/-1/NEWS0188 teachers and 25 support staff at Pocono Mtn SD
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11076/1132478-55.stmPittsburgh area - including many kindergarden teachers
"In addition, the districts stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in charter school tuition reimbursements, which also would be cut.
The Duquesne City School District, a high-poverty area, would lose 30 percent of its budget, and it's unclear whether the system could continue to operate."
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Scranton area:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/poorer-school-districts-have-most-to-lose-in-governor-s-budget-proposal-1.1121142#axzz1HKn8H3tP---------
Wilkes-Barre area:
http://www.timesleader.com/opinion/columnists/guydish/Governor_is_passing_pain_down_the_line_MARK_GUYDISH_OPINION_03-09-2011.html---
York:
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_17577090-----