‘Scuse me, but try a little accuracy: The teachers were not fired. They were part of a reduction in staff. Nowhere on their records will it be recorded that they were “fired.”
What has a reduction in staff at your school district got to do with balancing the Texas budget— since teacher salary comes out of your property taxes?
You want to call it a RIF, so be it. In the end, they were let go and will be out of a job.
The new state budget cut public school spending by $4 billion. School districts are forced to cut their budget, period. Part of school district budget cuts means fewer teachers. My property taxes went down, which means the revenue to the school district also went down. Less money from the state & less money from property taxes equals budget cuts.