Thread: 5,400 L.A. teacher jobs in jeopardy

5,400 L.A. teacher jobs in jeopardy

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school system, faces a $596 million budget shortfall for the 2009-10 school year.

The final number of layoffs remains to be determined because the exact amount of state and federal funds coming to the district remains unclear.
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I guess if you speak English as a first language you are gone.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

I guess if you speak English as a first language you are gone.

Yep, just like they did in Dallas. Also, I saw a news story that lawmakers are trying to fix a problem in Texas schools. Apparently, teachers were not allowed to give a failing grade to a failing student, so they passed them anyway. Yet another reason to fix the 14th amendment.

How do we recruit the laid off to become ALIPAC members?