Teacher layoffs out of sync with budget impasse

05-13-2011

By Louis Freedberg/California Watch

Thousands of California teachers will receive final layoff notices by a state-imposed deadline of May 15, even though school districts are still in the dark about their financial status in the coming school year. The May 15 deadline follows a March 15 deadline, when school districts were required to issue preliminary layoff notices. Both dates are completely out of sync with the stalled negotiations in Sacramento that will determine whether billions of dollars more will have to be slashed from public school budgets. There is a broad consensus among school officials and teacher representatives that the dates, specified in Education Code 44955, should be changed to reflect reality. At the very least, say some, the final layoff deadline should be moved until after the governor announces the revision of his annual budget on May 15. (more...)

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