Is it really necessary to lay off teachers Mayor Mike? They mean so much to the City of New York.
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UFT ad blasts Bloomberg
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“Mayor Bloomberg sees things differently than the rest of us. Our schools are short of money. Yet he refuses to ask millionaires to pay their fair share. He says class size doesn’t matter.”
That’s how the teachers’ union starts it's new TV ad attacking Mayor Bloomberg for pushing to repeal the “Last In/First Out” state law that requires teachers be laid off based on seniority rather than merit during a budget crisis.
Doomsday or is it Real. Cutting 21,000 Teachers
|Formats for political debates must change.
The state has a 10 billion dollar budget gap, and as a result, Mayor Bloomberg just on Friday laid out a doomsday scenario where he says the city may be forced to slash 21,000 teaching positions.
It needs to be repeated, 21,000 teaching positions. We are talking about people that educate our children. People that are the only role models for many kids.
What did we get from that one general election debate, answers on how to deal with this fiscal mess. No, comic relief of “the rent is too damn high.”