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LA School Layoffs: 5,400 Teachers and Support Staff
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by Tina Kells | April 15, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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The Los Angeles School Board has voted for massive layoffs to deal with severe budget restraints for the 2009/2010 school year. The board had been considering as many as 7,500 layoffs but settled on 5,400 layoffs by the end of the year.
Los Angeles is the second largest school district in the United States and will layoff high school teachers and support staff at all levels to make up a $596 million shortfall. The jobs of 1,996 elementary school teachers were saved. The elementary school teachers were also on the chopping block but the board voted against eliminating their jobs in an eleventh hour reprieve.
The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted to lay off as many as 5,400 teachers and support personnel for the upcoming school year.
The vote came Tuesday as employees protested raucously outside the meeting. The board had voted hours earlier to save the jobs of 1,996 elementary school teachers using federal stimulus funds.
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at 16:37 on April 15th, 2009
This is awful,Everyone has a human right to have a good education.The children deserve better.Whoever has to fix this problem better not hang about twiddling their thumbs for too long.We are talking about our future generation, This is a dreadful crisis.I also hope whoever is reponsible for fixing this problem does not take the easy way out by making bigger size classrooms with a diploma teacher and a classroom assistant.
at 18:17 on April 15th, 2009
I worked for them. They have the biggest administrative staff I have ever heard about. How many of them will be getting laid off?
Notice that no one is mentioned.
No, no, the elite keep their jobs.
at 18:24 on April 15th, 2009
I think that teachers are one of the jobs that should be protected in times like these; they are so important to the growth of our society.
at 18:41 on April 15th, 2009
Who is going to teach?
at 18:48 on April 15th, 2009
It's not just the teachers and school employees whose jobs are at stake; dozens of programs are being cut because of the budget deficit, including special education programs.
LAUSD is actually getting nearly $200 million in federal stimulus money and is only using half of it to address the issue. They plan to use the other half in the next school year. Protesters are arguing that all of the stimulus money should be used to save the jobs at stake.
This is such a heartbreaking story. Education is the greatest equalizer there is and it is the last thing we should compromise.
at 23:24 on April 16th, 2009
Funny thing. The school administrators keep huge salaries and never take a cut like the rest of the "real teachers".