To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.

Then come back here and refresh the page.

The city wants to make it clear just how messy teacher layoffs would be this year under current state law. Numbers show the extremely disproportionate impact the layoffs would have across the city, with more than 100 schools scheduled to lose 25 percent or more of their teachers and 325 other schools spared completely.

All of the DOE's projections are based on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's preliminary budget, calling for 4,675 teacher layoffs, and then the state law, requiring layoffs be done according to reverse-seniority. It's known as "Last-In, First-Out," since the teachers hired most recently are the first to go. For months, the mayor has been pushing for Albany to repeal the policy, and last week, lawmakers introduced legislation.

"I think it's clearly a strategy of the mayor to try to create fear and panic amongst people when he has a three billion dollar surplus and doesn't need to do layoffs," said United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

The DOE would decide how many teachers to layoff in each subject area, then seniority kicks in.

The only subjects scheduled to be spared any layoffs have strict regulations and chronic shortages including special education, English as a Second Language and speech.

Nine percent of elementary school teachers would face the ax, anyone who was hired during the past four years.

The DOE also decided to cut 15 percent of art, music, gym and library teachers.

Geographically, teachers in the South Bronx would be hit hardest with 12 percent laid off in Tremont and other neighborhoods. On Staten Island, only three percent of teachers would lose their jobs.

That means some teachers who didn't get laid off would still have to move within the system, filling vacancies at other schools, in other neighborhoods.

"There is a better way to do this," Natalie Ravitz, spokesperson for the DOE said. "We can change the law and keep the best teachers for our kids."

"Class sizes have gone up across the city and children are going to be hurt and there is no need to do layoffs," Mulgrew said.

In an ironic twist, the individual schools hit the hardest have already been in the news a lot during the past year.

At the Columbia Secondary School, 14 of the school's 20 teachers are projected to lose their jobs. This is the school where sixth grader Nicole Suriel drowned while on a field trip last June. Now the DOE says 70 percent of the teachers would be laid off, the highest percentage in the city.

The school scheduled to lose the highest number of teachers is the one on Rikers Island.