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Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Teaching jobs face ax in school budget deficit

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D.C. Public Schools officials yesterday announced they will eliminate 771 jobs this month to help reduce the school system's $38 million budget deficit.

Administrators say they will decide by Friday which jobs to cut. Employees who receive layoff notices this month will work until the end of January.

The majority of cuts will come from the ranks of the District's 5,400 educators, with 10 percent or more of all teachers set to lose their jobs, school administrators said.

"Many teachers will be affected," said Louis J. Erste, chief operating officer for the 68,000-student school district.

School officials said most of the cuts will come directly from the District's 167 public schools, affecting 545 teachers and 226 administrative staff positions.

The layoffs in the District follow a recent announcement by Baltimore school officials that between 800 and 1,000 employees from that city's troubled school system will lose their jobs. However, Baltimore mostly targeted jobs from within the administration and temporary work force.

D.C. administrators defended the elimination of teaching positions, saying the District's schools have a low teacher-to-student ratio compared with other urban school districts nationwide.

Figures compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2001-02 the District had 68,449 students and 11,390 employees, compared with Baltimore's 97,817 students and 10,660 employees.

Barring a last-minute infusion of cash from Congress or City Hall, school officials said employees whose jobs are being cut should receive notices in the mail by Dec. 29 at the latest.

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