Teachers’ pink slips painful but familiar

03-15-2010

By Bruce Lieberman/San Diego Union-Tribune

Teacher Linda Herschmiller, who got a layoff notice this month, led her kindergartners through Friday’s reading lesson at Johnson Elementary in El Cajon. In her four years as a teacher, Linda Herschmiller has come to rely on the predictability of her profession. October means literacy assessments. December is marked by winter vacation. And March is synonymous with layoff notices. Herschmiller, a kindergarten teacher at Johnson Elementary School in El Cajon, is among hundreds of teachers in the county — and nearly 22,000 teachers in California — to receive pink slips this month as school districts struggle with budget deficits brought on by the state’s fiscal mess. (more...)

Document Actions

Print this

Personal tools

Sections

Teachers’ pink slips painful but familiar

Document Actions