Redwood City Schools:140 employees get pink slips, Pasadena schools receive 164 layoff notices

[The Straight Story]

Redwood City School District issues pink slip notices to 140 employees


The Redwood City School District board unanimously voted Wednesday to notify 140 district employees — including a fifth of all the teachers — that they may lose their jobs after this school year.

And on Thursday administrators began telling some of the employees who will be given notices they may be laid off because the 9,000-student district faces projected cuts of between $4.7 million and $13.7 million from next year's budget. This year's budget is about $78 million.

The district is required to notify teachers by March 15 that they could get pink slips, and will send final notices in May to employees who actually may be laid off.

The list includes 82 classroom teachers and about 17 other teachers, including music teachers and reading support teachers, out of a total teaching staff of about 500. Layoff notices will also go to about seven administrators, two nurses and seven English language development coaches.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14660639

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Pasadena schools receive 164 layoff notices

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education has ordered layoff notices for more than 164 teachers, nurses, librarians, counselors, and administrators in an effort to close a $23 million funding gap caused by an 18 percent cut in state funding.

California law requires school districts to inform certified employees about potential layoffs by March 15.

The Thursday night meeting of the Board, held at the McKinley School auditorium, included passionate speeches from PUSD high school students, parents, teachers and other employees.

"Our budget crisis is neither a simple nor short-term dilemma, and we must work to influence the way Sacramento funds public schools to reflect the priorities of our community," said Board of Education President Tom Selinske. "I applaud the sacrifices that everyone in PUSD is making to save jobs and protect the momentum of accelerated student achievement."

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7325958


Can the schools get a bailout?

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1. "Can the schools get a bailout?"

Evidently not. We're supposed to fight over the last bowl of gruel instead.

[RC]

2. The government doesn't have any more money. They spent it

on their owners.

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3. There's always money for war though

Somehow, it always becomes available when "needed". There's always money for things as long as it isn't for the public commons.

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