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LAUSD approves cuts- Local middle and high schools could be hard hit

Our Weekly - April 26, 2009

By Cynthia Griffin 

Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles Unified School District Board (LAUSD) Tuesday voted 4-3 to approve a 2009-2010 budget that calls for the elimination of more than 6,800 people, and the new spending plan will go into effect beginning July 1, 2009.

The cuts are part of an effort to close a budget shortfall of more than $590 million.

At the same time the board approved the cuts, members also voted to rescind lay-off notices given to nearly 2,000 elementary school teachers. Superintendent Ray Cortines said earlier this week that many of these jobs are being saved by the federal stimulus funds and a District requirement that the lowest performing schools buy back the teaching slots lost to budget cuts.

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