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I got to my new job overseas, but now I get emails about a possible RIF. How concerned should I be about this? I am a special ed teacher in the middle school level.
haha Well, there has never (virtually never, may have happened in the distant past) been on RIF for DoDEA overseas teachers. Whenever there have been school/base closings, positions excessed etc., teachers have generally been placed in other locations (even if they were still on provisional status).

So, it's impossible to predict what will actu...See More
Dec 3, 2018
ziggy "FEA was told that, because the Department of Defense has been ordered to plan for a budget reduction, DoDEA is working on contingency plans, but that no decisions had yet been finalized."

I agree with haha - It sounds pretty unlikely with words like "contingency planning" being used by the union no less. I do recall some management level ...See More
Dec 3, 2018
ziggy Just confirmed the budget is currently set to increase by $61 billion to a total of ~$761 billion and at the time trump was very happy about the extra funding he got.

He tweeted yesterday "...The U.S. spent 716 Billion Dollars this year. Crazy!". I still haven't tied everything up but i'm guessing it's a play for the wall or shutdown on th...See More
Dec 3, 2018


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