More than 1,000 L.A. Unified workers lose their jobs

12-01-2010

By Rick Rojas/Los Angeles Times

More than a thousand Los Angeles Unified School District employees — including those who staff school offices, run libraries and maintain campuses — will be without jobs Wednesday amid the latest round of budget reductions this year in the nation's second-largest school district. Thousands of others will be shifted to new workplaces, with some taking positions with less pay and fewer hours. L.A. Unified officials said no teachers are included in this round, but that the reductions and reassignments affect 4,700 employees in various classified positions. Since June, about 6,100 employees have either lost their jobs or have been shifted into new ones, according to the district. Wednesday's moves are, by far, the largest, amounting to almost 77% of the reduction-related personnel changes made in 2010. Those leaving the district, or at least their school, say the changes are a stinging blow to campus communities, with the staff members who best know the ins and outs of a campus and its student population forced to leave. (more…)

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