Boston public schools to send out 25 teacher layoff notices this week

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Publication: The Boston Globe

Date: 2009-05-27 00:00:00

The Boston public schools system is issuing layoff notices to 25 teachers this week - far fewer than the hundreds of teachers predicted to lose their jobs earlier this year because of the budget crunch.

The layoffs come a month after approximately 105 provisional teachers were told that they would not be able to return next year because of budget constraints.

Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino, said the layoffs could have been averted had the teachers union agreed to a one-year salary freeze, but union leadership has not ...

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