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4,000 Laid Off Philadelphia School Employees Working Their Last Days

The district's largest shedding of jobs in decades is wiping out entire categories, including school secretaries (307) and noontime aides (1,202), and nearly every assistant principal (127) and itinerant instrumental teacher (76).

Now that the district is grappling with a $304 million shortfall, 3,859 district employees are being laid off.

The district's largest shedding of jobs in decades is wiping out entire categories, including school secretaries (307) and noontime aides (1,202), and nearly every assistant principal (127) and itinerant instrumental teacher (76).

Most of the 600 other teachers got pink slips based on seniority and will spend their last day on the job Monday. Their spots will be filled by instructors displaced from schools that cut staff or are closing.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.
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