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Teachers, LAUSD at odds over cutbacks
By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
As Los Angeles Unified officials scrambled to avert up to 8,500 layoffs, leaders of the teachers' union demanded Monday that the district slash bureaucracy and disclose spending before imposing furloughs and deep pay cuts. Superintendent Ramon Cortines announced last week that layoffs are the only way to close a looming $500 million budget deficit unless employees take a four-day furlough this year and a 12 percent pay cut next year. A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, on Monday rejected Cortines' ultimatum, but said the union was "willing to talk" about options. "First I want the (district's) books open completely and I want to know what they are spending their money on," he said. "I also want to see those expensive and useless mini-districts shut down," Duffy added, referring to the eight offices that oversee the day-to-day operation of local schools in the 700-square-mile district. (more...)
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