PHILADELPHIA - "A wild meeting at school district headquarters in Philadelphia on Monday saw hundreds of teachers trying to storm a session about upcoming layoffs.

Last week, 1,523 teachers got layoff notices and many of them came out, to let the School Reform Commission hear their full fury.
Screaming “let us in,” hundreds of teachers packed the hallways and overflowed open areas."

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"The SRC meeting was packed to capacity and police had to literally hold the doors to keep the rowdy crowd from storming the room
In the middle of the meeting came news that an injunction barring the layoffs was heading to Pennsylvania's Supreme Court.
When Monday's meeting finally got under way, PFT President Jerry Jordan took to the microphone and told the School Reform Commission, "In a budget crisis largely of your own creation, we are here to urge you to cut programs that affect few children at the expense of many. Dedicate every cent available to maximizing learning for the largest number of students in the district."

"Jordan said he fears the proposed cuts will set Philly students up for failure.

"The bottom line for teachers is still the same: They're in limbo, and most likely, will still lose their jobs. About 200 teachers may keep their jobs if the layoffs are expanded to the Promise Acadamies."