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Birmingham School System To Cut 200 Jobs

By: Stephen Crews
Updated: July 25, 2012
Nearly 200 Birmingham teachers and staff members are now without work. The State Superintendent Dr. Tommy Bice presided over Tuesday's Birmingham Board of Education meeting passing the state's proposed requirements and adopting a new policy for future job cuts.

This is a plan the state has tried to put in place since it took over the district. Interest in this meeting was so large, the line to get in backed up all the way out to the sidewalk.

Security inside the board of education was tight.  Everyone walked through metal detectors and officers and state troopers lined the walls. And an even more noticeable difference - State Superintendent Dr. Tommy Bice presided over the meeting.

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