A recently adopted Illinois education reform law is allowing Peoria school officials to ignore the union seniority system as they determine what teachers to lay off in an effort to eliminate a $6 million deficit.
Peoria school officials voted Monday to issue pink slips to 53 full-time teachers, including 28 teachers who “are either tenured teachers who received unsatisfactory evaluations or were hired too late in the school year to receive evaluations,” according to PJstar.com.
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