It appears that they did this in order to avoid having to rehire teachers based on seniority first:
Teachers begged the School Board to issue layoffs rather than fire them outright because, under the layoff provisions, teachers are recalled based on seniority. There is no guarantee that seniority would be used to bring back any of the fired teachers.
So it looks like there were lots of senior teachers the board wanted to eliminate, not necessarily all of the teachers.
Teachers begged the School Board to issue layoffs rather than fire them outright because, under the layoff provisions, teachers are recalled based on seniority. There is no guarantee that seniority would be used to bring back any of the fired teachers.
So it looks like there were lots of senior teachers the board wanted to eliminate, not necessarily all of the teachers.