Sentence examples for school layoffs from inspiring English sources

The billions that Congress approved in 2009 and 2010 to forestall school layoffs is mostly spent.

The school layoffs are the latest setback for a historic waterfront city of nearly 300,000 that is engulfed in its worst financial crisis in years.

The school layoffs have united city and school officials, union leaders, teachers, parents and students in a massive campaign to lobby for more federal and state aid.

Warning of an educational emergency, Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, proposed a $23 billion school bailout bill last Wednesday that would essentially provide more education stimulus financing to stave off the looming wave of school layoffs.

Senior congressional Democrats and the Obama administration scrambled Wednesday to line up support for $23 billion in federal aid to avert an estimated 100,000 or more school layoffs in a brutal year for education budgets coast to coast.

They added that the city must examine the way their district is run, if they expect to get any extra state aid to avoid large school layoffs and program cuts.

"The tough decisions we made have created an uphill battle for us now," Mr. Fenty said in an interview, seeking to attribute his low ratings mainly to the fallout from changes like the closing of underused schools, layoffs of civil servants and the adoption of taxi meters against driver opposition.

There is mounting resistance to reflexively extending jobless pay for the long-term unemployed, and other initiatives, like a $23 billion plan to prevent public school teacher layoffs, face serious challenges.

The stimulus package, including a $54 billion "stabilization" fund to protect schools against layoffs and budget cuts, is rightly framed to encourage compliance.

Ms. Quinn said that if the Council had known that in June, when it reached agreement with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on the city's most recent budget, "we could have advocated to avoid the school-aide layoffs".

The federal stimulus money is meant to shield schools from layoffs and reignite a national reform effort that still has a long way to go in places like South Carolina.