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GothamSchools asked principals how they’re handling this year’s sizable mid-year cuts and how they plan to cope with the even larger cuts that loom in the near future. We’ll be compiling their responses on an ongoing basis, so please encourage principals you know to tell us what they’re cutting from their schools.

So far, we’ve heard from a Brooklyn principal who said, “We will have to eliminate about 5 positions …This flies in the face of the success we have had by lowering class size.”

And the principal of a large school in Queens wrote, “As of now we have been able to absorb the initial cut without any major changes to instructional programs. … If they make an additional cut, which we heard might happen, this year, then we will have to excess teachers mid-year.”

Read all of the responses. After the jump, see the letter we sent principals. (more…)