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Detroit Teachers Get Pink Slips

The Detroit Public School district is notifying more than four thousand teachers they are being laid-off. The teachers can reapply for their jobs – but there will be fewer positions available. The Detroit Public Schools are in state receivership, under the control of an emergency manager and have suffered from declining enrollment for years. Some students are being moved into a new educational Authority in hopes of improving their academic achievement. So the Detroit district is reducing its workforce. Officials say they want to bring back “the right number of teachers” but based on performance evaluations instead of seniority. Unions say the district took the same action last year, then hired additional teachers when classrooms became severely overcrowded shortly after school began.