CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The man who leads schools in North Carolina's largest city says he expects to have to lay off more than 1,000 of the district's 19,000 employees for the coming school year.
Multiple media outlets reported that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman said Wednesday he expects to trim 1,030 workers for the 2010-11 fiscal year.
Gorman says there appears to be a $78 million gap between what the school district needs and what it expects from the county and the state.
He said earlier this week he will ask local officials for an extra $16 million for the coming year. But Mecklenburg County officials already have warned the school system that they expect to cut the district budget, not increase it.
Gorman expects the layoffs to include 600 teachers, 250 other employees and 164 teacher assistants.
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Wow
and this after the "Education" Governor spent nearly 1/2 day in Washington cranking the organ for federal funds. Guess she forgot to take the monkey or he was already packed for the trip to Hollywood.
Can she focus on one item? And see it through to fruition?
Can she admit there is no magic wand she can wave to cure all the state's financial woes?
Can she at least stay in state and appear to be formenting plans of action?
For those of you who voted the straigh D last election, so you could be part of somethign historic, are you happy now? Did you get what you wanted?