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California teachers win big in state budget deal
- 06-30-2011
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By Kevin Yamamura and Diana Lambert/Sacramento Bee
Teachers win layoff protection while school finance officials see their powers curtailed in the state budget package Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign today. The last-minute school legislation, Assembly Bill 114, emerged publicly less than an hour before lawmakers approved it in a late-evening Tuesday session. It reflects the negotiating muscle of teachers as Democratic lawmakers crafted their majority-vote budget with a governor of their own party. "This provides stability for students and teachers," said Dean E. Vogel, the new president of the California Teachers Association. He said the bill stems the tide of an estimated 30,000 job losses that teachers have faced since the recession began. Lawmakers blocked K-12 districts from laying off teachers for the upcoming fiscal year. (more...)
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