History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Health costs rise for Torrance teachers as a result of layoff fears
- 08-06-2010
-
By Rob Kuznia/Los Angeles Daily Breeze
In an example of the unexpected consequences that can come in the wake of widespread layoffs, the cost of health benefits for hundreds of teachers that survived last year's bloodbath at the Torrance Unified School District is skyrocketing. Last school year, with hundreds of teachers and other district employees fearing for their jobs - as well as their attendant health benefits - an unusually large number of them visited their doctors to take care of procedures and checkups they'd long been putting off. (more...)
Print this
