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Teacher pink slips - Uncomfortable budget uncertainty for instructors and school districts
- 05-16-2011
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
As she has every year since she began teaching, Holly Gonzalez celebrated her May 15 birthday with a pink slip -- not the silky kind that comes in a shiny box, but the flat one that comes in a plain white envelope. Gonzalez, who turned 27 Sunday, teaches a first-second-grade combination at James Franklin Smith School in San Jose. She doesn't know where, or what, or if, she'll teach next year. Dozens of other Santa Clara County teachers, and thousands statewide, received the formal notice by the state's May 15 deadline that they won't have a job in 2011-12. As happens every year, the flurry of preliminary pink slips that districts issued earlier this year translated to far fewer final notices, a number reduced by teacher resignations, retirements and leave requests. But districts are still preparing for large cuts. On Monday Gov. Jerry Brown will outline a revised proposal for the state budget, about half of which goes to education. It won't offer schools any firm financial footing, because the Legislature remains stalled over how to close a multibillion-dollar hole in the 2011-12 budget. And it also cannot agree whether to call an election on extending taxes to help bridge the gap. (more...)
Also: San Bernardino Sun
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