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Los Angeles Unified juggling layoffs, charter school oversight this week
- 06-27-2011
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KPCC
Los Angeles Unified School District officials and individual schools are dealing with several issues this week — how to manage the elimination of around 1,900 positions when the new fiscal year starts Friday, whether to disburse funds that aren't being used to stem that loss and how to increase oversight of its charter schools. As the L.A. Times reported Sunday, preliminary layoff notices had been issued to 7,000 district employees. That number was reduced by 5,000 when the teachers union agreed to a four-day furlough. But the $42 million in savings from that isn't enough to plug a $400 million deficit, and administrators are now facing a difficult choice – whether to use their dwindling resources to hire back staff whose jobs are in jeopardy, or lay them off. (more...)
Also: Los Angeles Times
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