Faced with continued enrollment declines, school officials in Boston say that their new budget maintains a 10:1 student to teacher ratio.
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The Wu administration recently rebuffed efforts from one Boston City Council member who urged officials to use reserve funds to prevent layoffs within the Boston Public Schools system. In doing so, administration officials said that more than 560 positions have been eliminated for the upcoming school year.
The job cuts are the result of a $1.7 billion BPS budget that councilors approved last month. Officials have said that the budget will result in more than 400 layoffs, which prompted outrage from some educators and protesters…