Rainbow District School Board has found full- or part-time positions for 56 of the 75 teachers who received pink slips in April, director of education Jean Hanson said on Wednesday.
The other 19 teachers – 16 elementary and three secondary – can apply for long-term occasional positions and have their names put on the supply teachers’ list. As well, the latter group and those who have lost full-time jobs have the right to be recalled to a position based on seniority.
“It’s never over till it’s over,” said Hanson. School officials will present their budget to the board on June 23.
Declining enrolment forced the board to lay the teachers off. “Within the City of Greater Sudbury, the number of children aged zero to 14 has decreased by 16.5 per cent over the last 10 years,” Hanson said in a press release at the time the pink slips were issued. “With declining enrolment, school boards receive less funding overall from the province.”
