{"id":4943,"date":"2011-10-12T07:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:51:15","slug":"morning-read-2-in-ny-11000-teacher-positions-cut-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/12\/morning-read-2-in-ny-11000-teacher-positions-cut-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read 2:   In NY 11,000 teacher positions cut this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between actual lay-offs (7,000) and unfilled vacancies (4,000) the number of teacher cuts this year in New York state has been dramatic.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x744031183\/Report-Layoffs-hit-3-percent-of-NY-teachers\">Associated Press via the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall, 80 percent of school districts reported cutting teaching positions, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York state&#8217;s schools absorbed one of the largest aid cuts in state  history this year, but the reduction in state support has been going on  for three years now and it is clearly taking a toll on school districts  across the state,&#8221; said Robert Reidy, executive director of the  superintendents&#8217; group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the 2% property tax cap kicks in, the squeeze is expected to get even sharper.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 A proper downsizing?\u00a0 Or will this affect what our kids are experiencing in the classroom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between actual lay-offs (7,000) and unfilled vacancies (4,000) the number of teacher cuts this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}