Get ready AGAIN! CA teachers! Second round of layoffs coming in!

[Whoa_Nelly]

Got this today from my teachers' union rep:

Second Round RIFS (Reduction In Force)

Legal and NODD Advisory

Although the March 15th RIF proceedings have only just concluded, many questions have been raised about the possibility of a second round of RIFS. This advisory is intended to answer some of those questions.

Can school districts proceed with a second round of layoffs of certificated employees after the March 15th RIF process?

Yes but only if they satisfy three very specific conditions. The Education Code provides for second round reductions in force of certificated employees if three conditions are met:

1. The layoffs occur during the time period between 5 days after enactment of the Budget Act for a fiscal year and August 15th of that fiscal year;

2. The School District’s Board determines that its total revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance for that fiscal year will be less than 2%; and

3. The School District’s Board decides that, as a consequence, it is “necessary to decrease the number of permanent employees in the district.” Educ. Code 44955.5.

The first two of these conditions have arguably been met in most school districts. California enacted a budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year on February 20, 2009, which means that the time period for second round layoffs is now open. In addition, under that budget, not only are most school districts slated to receive revenue limit increases of less than 2% but those numbers will likely fall further as well in the coming month after the Governor’s May Revision, which arguable satisfies the second condition for second round layoffs.

The significant question that remains unanswered is whether school boards will determine that, as a result of the reduced revenue limits, it is “necessary to decrease the number of permanent employees in the district.” School districts are not currently in a position to make that determination because their budgets for next year will be significantly affected by the Governor’s proposed May Revision, the changes made by the Legislature to “balance” the 2009-2010 State Budget and the impact of the federal economic stimulus dollars. We expect that school districts will be in a position to make that determination by the end of June.

[MadHound]

1. This is going to have a ripple effect across the country

As CA teachers move back east to find jobs, thus causing a surplus elsewhere. Teaching used to be a recession proof job, but no longer. I'm getting my teaching certificate in a year, and I'm starting to get worried about finding a job out here in the Midwest. Having already bought a house, put down roots, etc., moving is simply not an option for me, and with more teachers available, my chances get slimmer.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Am one of the moving teachers

Pink slip in late January.

No takers to hire me around here (am top of my pay scale third column...they want to pay the newbies the low salary)

Am moving to Oklahoma in about three weeks.
Home state, to my hometown of OKC
Still have contacts and friends there, AND the economic crisis has not yet hit there.


Fuck you Arnie and all you lazy CA legislators!
The current crisis did NOT have to happen if you'd only been paying attention about 5 years ago, assholes :grr:

[MadHound]

3. This crisis has been brewing for a few decades

What with things like Prop 13 and other tax measures. While Californians may be ultra liberal when it comes to social issues, they certainly vote like rabid conservatives when it comes to taxes.

While I don't think that Ahnie helped the matter, I don't think that he could have prevented this catastrophe. His hands were tied by all the anti-tax laws, and the die for the crash of the housing market was already tossed.

Good luck in OKC, sorry to hear about your pink slip. But don't think that the economic crisis hasn't hit there yet. I live over in Missouri, and it's hitting all over the Midwest. All the school districts around here have cut back funding and axed teachers, and that's going on everywhere.

[ChazII]

4. All groups are taking a 6.2%

pay cut in my district here in Arizona.

[midnight]

5. Things like this make no sense. Lay off the bankers, and not

our teachers and nurses.