California Teachers Going Home By The Thousands…..
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on March 16, 2010
Pink Slips Sent To Thousands Of Calif. Teachers
By ROBIN HINDERY, Associated Press Writer
Monday, March 15, 2010
California’s budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000 teachers their jobs this year.
State school districts had issued 21,905 pink slips to teachers and other school employees by Monday, the legal deadline for districts to send preliminary layoff notices.
Not all the threatened layoffs will be carried out. The final tally depends on the state budget to be adopted for the coming fiscal year.
Last year, 60 percent of the 26,000 teachers who received pink slips ended up losing their jobs.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell expected this year’s actual job losses to be high, given the state’s persistent budget problems and the smaller pool of education stimulus money available from the federal government.
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