DiPalma Bill Moves Teacher Layoff Date To Avert Pink Slip Sprees
Sen. Roger Picard one of 11 co-sponsors of measure to prevent blanket layoffs.
Last February, with the School Department's budget $2.7 million in the red, and an as-yet unrealized future deficit looming, the Woonsocket School Committee voted to lay off 700 employees. At the time, City Council Vice Chairman Dan Gendron noted the School Committee had little choice, since the deadline to send pink slips was March 1, before much of the scope of the department's fiscal troubles were known. The deadline was blamed for a similar spree of school department layoffs in Providence in 2011, and it's a situation all school districts may face during financial uncertainty. Sen. Louis P. DiPalma's (D - District 12, Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Tiverton) new legislation would ease the annual ordeal by moving the layoff …
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Still Hope
9:49 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
I thought the original date was used in order to give those teachers being laid off time to look for another job and cycle through interviews and offers. Moving the date is a knee-jerk reaction to the inability to properly control a city budget. So now if a handful of teachers are actually laid off, they have 3 less months to interview for another position, essentially limiting them to 2 months … more ›