Pink-slipped Sacramento-area teachers will have a tougher wait this year
By Diana Lambert and Melody Gutierrez/Sacramento Bee
Blaine White received a pink slip again last week. This is the second year the Folsom Cordova Unified counselor has been handed a layoff notice by his principal. He was rehired in September. White joins about 2,500 Sacramento County school employees who recently learned their jobs are on the line. They will have an uneasy wait. School officials say few of the preliminary pink slips will be rescinded by the final state-mandated deadline to notify teachers by May 15. District officials are too nervous about the uncertainty of the state budget. District administrators can't be sure how much money they can expect for the next school year until tax extensions proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown are decided. (more...)
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