The School Board of Broward County, Florida, is making continuous progress to place many of its 394 recently laid-off teachers back to work. The chart below reflects the status:

A. Teachers laid off on June 23, 2009 = 394   

B. Teachers placed, to date = 236   

C. Teachers remaining to be placed = 132   

D. Teachers who resigned, separated employment or declined placement = 26

NOTE: The count listed in row A equals the combined totals in rows B, C and D.

The District is making every effort, as vacant positions are declared, to get teachers back in the classrooms.

This week, the District hired four Instructional Facilitators. The District will review whether to continue advertising for the remaining nine positions that were not filled. The Instructional Facilitator positions are in the critical subject areas of Algebra, Biology, Chemistry and Geometry.

On Monday, August 10, the District’s Instructional Staffing Department hosted a Critical Shortage Subject Area Job Fair at Nova High School and filled 63 of 115 available teaching positions.

The District is actively seeking to hire teachers for the remaining 52 positions in the critical areas of math, reading, science and ESE (Exceptional Student Education). There were no teachers on the recall list that met the qualifications for these 115 available teaching positions. Interested and qualified applicants are encouraged to apply directly to the schools with posted vacancies. Available teaching jobs may be accessed on the District’s Web site at  (www.browardschools.com/departments/employment/instructional.htm).

The recall process begins with the teacher being sent a letter via certified mail informing them of their updated job status.  Teachers have 72 hours from receipt of the certified letter to respond to the District’s Instructional Staffing department in writing, either accepting or declining their new position. This notice process meets the requirement in the Broward Teachers Union (BTU) contract. In an additional effort by the District to contact recalled teachers during the summer, a scanned copy of the letter is also sent for response via the CAB (Communicating Across Broward), the District E-mail network.