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Layoffs and reductions approved by Santa Cruz City Schools Board
- 03-05-2010
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By Megha Satyanarayana/San Jose Mercury News
Faced with a deficit of $5.2 million, an incomplete list of retirees and no concessions on a reduced school year by the teachers' union, the Santa Cruz City Schools Board agreed Wednesday to lay off or cut the hours of the equivalent of 57 full-time K-12 educators, 23 temporary K-12 educators, every program in adult education and about 50 temporary adult education teachers. School districts and community colleges have until March 15 to give out preliminary pink slips. As the state budget is changed, then approved, districts learn better what their state funding is, and many of those pink slips are rescinded. It's a process often lambasted for being thrust upon districts in the absence of solid information. (more...)
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