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LI school districts plan to cut 2,000 jobs
Photo credit: Uli Seit | Eighth grade teacher Beverly Robinson helps a student at the Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School in Hempstead. (April 14, 2011)
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Long Island school districts plan to slash more than 2,000 jobs for the 2011-12 school year -- including 1,200-plus teachers -- in the biggest wave of staff reductions in two decades.
Newsday's annual survey of spending and staffing plans in the Island's 124 districts projects an overall 3.5 percent cut in the number of teachers, which will produce larger class sizes in many cases. Many districts...
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