Over 900 pink slips likely for S.F. schools

02-23-2010

By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle

More than 900 San Francisco schoolteachers, administrators and other staff members - nearly twice that of last year - are in line to receive layoff notices in the next few weeks as district officials prepare to cover a worst-case budget scenario next year. The school board is expected to vote tonight to authorize the pink slips, a decision required by state law to meet a March 15 deadline for notifying teachers and administrators that they might not have a job next year. District officials said the list is long given the mind-boggling $113 million budget shortfall expected over the next two years, a deficit requiring huge cuts to staffing and programs. It includes full-time and part-time employees representing nearly 800 full-time teaching and administrative positions for the most part. (more...)

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