www.EmploymentCrossing.com Memphis City Schools is slashing 334 positions to make up for a massive budget shortfall. Two hundred and eight vacant positions will be eliminated, and 126 people will lose their jobs with the school district tha

www.EmploymentCrossing.com Memphis City Schools is slashing 334 positions to make up for a massive budget shortfall. Two hundred and eight vacant positions will be eliminated, and 126 people will lose their jobs with the school district that serves Tennessee’s largest city. Improbably-named school Superintendent Kriner Cash said, in a letter to employees Friday, that the district has never had to face a ‘‘budget situation this dire.’’ Even pulling $30 million from the district’s “rainy day fund,� the schools are $41 million dollars in the hole. Teachers are those most likely to be impacted by the layoffs. The Memphis City Council recently cut $66 million from the schools’ budget, citing waste and fraud. Tennessee was recently ranked 16th nationally for primary to secondary education, according to Education Week magazine

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