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LAUSD reaches tentative deal with employees on furloughs
- 04-28-2011
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Leaders of Los Angeles Unified's administrators and police unions tentatively agreed this week to taking 12 furlough days to help the district close a $408 million budget deficit and sources close to negotiations said Wednesday that more unions are expected to join them. But district officials are concerned by the progress of the negotiations with the teachers union, L.A. Unified's biggest. The union claims that LAUSD has overstated its budget deficit by $150 million by counting a loss of state revenues twice. We are willing to accept necessary sacrifices to bring back our members, but we can't determine what those are without reliable budget information," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy said the information provided to the UTLA is accurate. (more...)
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