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COVID-19 Layoffs Are Coming for N.J. Teachers. How Bad Will It Get?
NJ.com
May 15, 2020
Facing a Friday deadline to notify those teachers who won’t be brought back next year, many districts have already told non-tenured educators they won’t be offered a contract for the fall until schools know just how badly their finances will be hurt by COVID-19, said Richard Bozza, executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators. And those decisions might only be a precursor to a summer of painful budget cuts forced by an almost certain decrease in state funding. “I think any significant cuts are going to be severe (for schools), and roughly 80% of school district budgets are people costs,″ Bozza said. “Nobody wants to be a doomsdayer, but there is only so much you can do.”