Receiving a notice doesn't mean those teachers are going to be laid off, but the district sends layoff notices while it waits to find out how much money it will receive from the state for the next school year, and how many teachers it can afford to keep.
The Brevard County school district, for example, expects 713 fewer pupils for the next school year, from a total intake of just over 72,000, but communications director Christine Davis admits that figure is largely guesswork.
The academy will get an additional $6.4 million from Chicago Public Schools in the next school year to expand its teacher training services at two more elementary schools, Morton and Howe.
Mr Clegg said: "From the start of the next school year, every single infant school pupil will be able to sit down to a free school lunch".
These teachers will be deployed from the beginning of the next school year in July and UNICEF will also provide their salaries for the first six months.
In a summer school program aimed at students who educators feel could benefit from additional academic support before starting the next school year, it's particularly striking.
Under the new rule, which was posted on the department's Web site last week amid many memos for principals, schools that get As, Bs or Cs on the progress reports that come out this summer will be able to use their full savings from the 2011-12 school year in the next school year (there is a cap of $44 per student).
Like Ms. Andrias, dozens of city principals and administrators pleaded their case this week, submitting appeals to join the list of the 209 schools that will be exempt from the citywide standard curriculum in the next school year.
School administration of three schools refused to participate and the next school was selected randomly from the respective stratum.
The suit seeks a permanent injunction to prevent the state from awarding vouchers next school year without first seeking pre-clearance from a federal court.
