Teachers in New York City have a lot of questions on their minds these days: How many, if any, will be laid off? And which set of criteria will be used to make the tough call—the seniority provisions as currently required in state law or one of several revisions now floating around the Statehouse in Albany?
And the mayor has urged the state legislature to allow the city to let go of teachers with “unsatisfactory” evaluation ratings before other teachers. State law currently requires layoffs by reverse seniority.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, has said he supports revisions to state layoff policy. But a piece of legislation 
he recently unveiled to expedite a state overhaul of teacher evaluations does not specifically address layoffs. And it has yet to be taken up by the legislature.
he recently unveiled to expedite a state overhaul of teacher evaluations does not specifically address layoffs. And it has yet to be taken up by the legislature.How teachers should be laid off during reductions-in-force has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in proposals to improve teacher quality—and one that will be in the spotlight as states and districts continue to struggle under a slowly recovering economy.
“There is different information in all these ways of defining layoffs,” said James H. Wyckoff, a professor of education policy at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, and a co-author of a 2010 analysis on layoffs in New York City.
on layoffs in New York City.
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