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LAUSD expected to approve 4,700 layoff notices
- 03-02-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Unified officials are expected to approve a mass mailing of nearly 4,700 layoff notices for teachers, administrators, counselors and nurses Tuesday as they work to close a crippling $640 million budget deficit. Recommended by the district's finance staff in a report to be reviewed today by the school board, the move would virtually eliminate school nurses and librarians, increase all class sizes - including a high of up to 44 students in middle school - and boost counselor loads to 1,000 students each. Layoff notices would also go out to nearly 1,000 janitors and maintenance workers and 520 school office workers if the board approves the recommendations. (more...)
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