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Financially strapped Birmingham City Schools discusses another round of layoffs, this time it’s tenured teachers and paraeducators.  The employees are mainly special education teacher’s aides. They already have lower salaries than regular full time employees. Many attended the board of education meeting Tuesday afternoon to protest the board’s reduction in force plan. “This is my job, so it’s …

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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WIAT)—The honeymoon period is now over for one area superintendent. Thursday marked Dr. Craig Witherspoon’s 100th day on the job, and much has changed in the Birmingham City School System. Witherspoon has not only reorganized the Central Office, but he’s also cut 40 positions from the system, which has some wondering: Are more layoffs to come? It’s a tough subject, but in a …

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