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Wednesday, May 15, 2013  Flint Community Schools will let go of 139 teachers come June 10, the last day of school, but the teacher's union is holding out hope that number will be smaller.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  The Michigan Department of Education has accepted the Flint school board's deficit elimination plan that oulines how the district plans to get rid of $16 million in debt by 2016.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  Area superintendents are working to assist the Buena Vista School District in getting students back to school.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012  Flint teachers will take a seven percent pay cut in a collective bargaining agreement they reached last week and school board members approved Wednesday night.

Friday, June 22, 2012  57 teachers, 27 administrators and three other school personnel will return for the new school year.

Friday, June 08, 2012  Bunche is one of four Flint schools board members voted last month to close as part of their move to avoid a $19 million deficit.

Thursday, May 24, 2012  The Flint School Board voted 7-1 Tuesday to cut over 200 staff positions, the vast majority of them teachers.

Monday, July 11, 2011  Each of the 84 called back Flint teachers received notices in the mail with information on which school they'll be placed in for the upcoming school year.

Friday, July 01, 2011  The budget cuts more than 460 people from the 2012 payroll. School leaders are hoping some of them will be called back to work.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011  State Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes is calling for Governor Rick Snyder to “restore the devastating budget cuts to Michigan's schools and protect the state's School Aid Fund from unnecessary raids in the future.”

Thursday, June 16, 2011  The Flint School Board has approved a bid to privatize the custodial services. If it goes through, 277 people will be laid off.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011  School officials say 15 administrators and eight teachers will be handed pink slips.

Thursday, August 05, 2010  Federal Jobs Bill would provide $10 billion to cash-strapped states and local school districts to prevent teacher layoffs.

Thursday, April 15, 2010  The cash-strapped Flint school district will lay off 261 teachers at the end of the year.