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O.C. schools shave 524 jobs
- 08-09-2011
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By Fermin Leal and Scott Martindal/The Orange County Register
Orange County public schools have eliminated 524 jobs this year as they struggle to cope with rising costs and limited state funding, even as the financial outlook for public education has improved dramatically over the past three months. Nearly 1,000 of the 1,500 teaching and other jobs that Orange County school districts had originally planned to cut have been reversed, and district officials say they expect to rehire many of the laid-off employees, after accounting for all retirements and resignations. That's not to say, though, that students won't feel the impact of the budget woes when they return to their desks in the coming weeks. Class sizes will be larger in some school districts, programs and services have been scaled back in others, and at least 10 of Orange County's 28 districts will shave up to five days from the instructional year. (more...)
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