Teacher Layoffs To Feature Prominently In Bloomberg's Budget

Mayor Bloomberg's "bleak budget," to be announced today, will include laying off 4,666 teachers. According to the NY Times, "The mayor, according to a preview of his budget released on Wednesday, will threaten to eliminate 6,166 teaching positions in total: 4,666 through layoffs and 1,500 through attrition. That would reduce the 75,000-person teaching force by 8 percent, and it would be the first time the city has laid off significant numbers of teachers since the 1970s."

Bloomberg, who had previously threatened to lay off over 20,000 teachers, also wants to push the idea of firing the most incompetent teachers, instead of the most recently hired (which would flout the current union process). Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said in a statement, "The only thing worse than laying off teachers would be laying off the wrong teachers." But United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew said, "He continues, we feel, to use this as a political game, rather than making sure he's protecting the schools and children of New York City."

Even though the city admits that tax revenues will come in $2 billion higher than projected, it's not enough to spare the educators.

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By Jen Chung in News on February 17, 2011 12:25 PM

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LazyNanny

GOOD. Fire every lazy parasite on the city payroll.
WAKE UP people. The city, state and federal governments are INSOLVENT.

cmdrogogov

what Rod said is correct.

If you fire every 'lazy parasite' on the payroll...
well.... enjoy shoveling your own snowdrifts.

Rod

actually, you literally could not be more incorrect.

bloomberg's 2002 budget: $40 billion. (mostly pork and theft)
bloomberg's 2010 budget: $67 billion (mostly pork and theft)

money sure is "tight" when you ONLY have an extra $27 billion to spend ever 12 months.

the ONLY reason bloomberg and other pols cry poverty is because not one person in the press will tell people the truth, so it allows the pols to raise taxes to balloon corporate welfare (guaranteeing them riches for the rest of their lives) (cuz every pol needs a golden parachute) and then these pols kickback monies to... the press!

they live happily ever after while you fools believe everything they tell you.

cmdrogogov

here's an interesting nugget of info I found the other day:

http://www.csealocal1000.org/p...

Makes an interesting read - assuming anyone has the attention span to actually read it.

Guest

oh man, this is gonna get ugly. prepare for Thunderdome!

Roger_the_Shrubber

How about firing some of the useless bureaucrats and administrators first?

chuzzlewit

this is fucking nuts.

Rod

what?

that Bloomberg lies about every single thing he says, or that Jen and most reporters let him get away with it 100% of the time?

you won't see any reporters ever mention that the City has more cash than ever before.

you won't see any reporters ever tell you the truth about the education budget.

so I will:

1994 NYC's schools budget for 1 million kids: $6 billion a year!

(half of it stolen via contracting scams).

2011 NYC's schools budget for 1 million kids: $23 billion a year!

just take a guess why jen and all other reporters keep this secret.

you know why: they protect the emperor.

chuzzlewit

could you...i mean,maybe you could just say all your stuff out in your own comment? maybe like a separate comment?

luke_1

Adios suckers. As an educator I'd like to make my official gothamist (tm) announcement that I am leaving NYC as soon as is possible. Enjoy your continuing descent into idiocracy. One day all that will be left are trade schools where you will learn how to plunge the toilets and fix the elevators of the wealthy.

Actually it is worse than that because what is occurring is a carefully orchestrated redistribution of money away from poor and working class kids, and anti-union sentiment confirms that most of us are such sheep that we agree and consent to resources being taken from us.