Schools | DPS plans to cut 1,500 teachers | The Detroit News - 1 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 21 Sep 11Detroit Public Schools expects to shed nearly 40 percent of its teachers in the next four years to help close a $327 million deficit, yet projects a loss of just 6,000 students under a state-approved fiscal blueprint. The district would cut more than 1,500 teachers by fall 2015, according to a deficit-elimination plan obtained by The Detroit News. Most of the reduction - nearly 1,100 teachers - would occur next fall as DPS moves some of its weakest schools into a statewide recovery system, the Education Achievement Authority.