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“I think we will still have to do a small RIF…Most of the teachers will get their jobs back and they should know it. And if they don’t know it, they should know it now.” Steve Quigley, school board president
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he plan to potentially lay off more than 400 teachers was shot down by the Valley View School District School Board last week, expecting the administration to come back with far fewer reductions as originally intended. The sometimes slippery slope of contractual obligations such as the Reduction in Force (RIF) process paints a picture far worse than intended, explained School Board President Steve Quigley. At the past board meeting, held March 26, the administration called for the honorable dismissal of first-, second-, third-, fourth-, and fifth-year teachers
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for reduction-in-force reasons. The RIF process, or layoff process, is a common but complicated occurrence in school districts. The passage of Senate Bill 7 in June 2011 made the process even more cumbersome, said Quigley. In an analysis done by Attorneys and Counselors Franczek and Radelet, teacher layoffs must now be based primarily on performance ratings rather than seniority. The legislation extends honorable dismissal, reduction in force, and recall rights to probationary teachers, and introduces a new procedure for carrying out reductions in force and recall decisions effective for See RIF, page 3