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Long Beach school board votes to lay off 357 employees
- 07-13-2010
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By Kevin Butler/Long Beach Press-Telegram
The Long Beach Board of Education on Monday voted to lay off 357 teachers, counselors and social workers as part of a budget-balancing plan. The five-member board first unanimously voted to lay off 557 employees, mostly teachers. But the board then immediately rescinded 200 of the pink slips in accordance with a labor agreement with the teachers' union, reducing the number of actual layoffs to 357. The agreement requires teachers to take furlough days next school year, a move LBUSD officials said is saving 200 jobs from elimination. (more...)
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