Posted on 03/16/2012 6:09:21 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
More than 20,000 public school teachers in California opened their mailboxes over the last few days to find a pink slip inside as districts dispensed the dreaded news to the educators that they may not have a job in the fall.
The layoff notices are preliminary, the districts' best guess at their funding after the Legislature concludes its annual budget fight this summer. But a proposed tax measure on the November ballot offers more uncertainty.
Voters could approve a tax increase that would prevent a $4.8 billion trigger cut to education funding, as proposed in the governor's budget.
That cut would be about $807 per student, the equivalent of 55,000 teacher layoffs or 17 days of school, according to The Education Coalitions.
The layoff notices were sent to teachers, librarians and others in schools all over California. Not many districts found a way to skirt the deadline.
San Francisco sent out 500 layoff notices.
In Los Angeles, 11,000 were sent.
About 700 were mailed in Sacramento.
Every school librarian in Union City got one, along with 100 teachers, administrators and other school staff.
Oakland Unified administrators found a way to balance its budget through attrition, elimination of adult education, across-the-board cuts at school sites, school mergers and closures, as well as other program cuts.
Disgruntled public
As the pink slip deadline approached, the mood in dozens of districts across the state reflected a growing public impatience with budget cuts to education. Parents protested, teachers rallied, and three students in San Leandro held a weeklong hunger strike to draw attention to the cost to classrooms.
In years past, many of the layoff notices issued by the March 15 deadline have been rescinded because of concessions from labor unions, changes to the state's revenue outlook or successful parcel tax measures.
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Hey teachers union, how is that Hope and Change working out for you now? Send the Bozo more money and everything will be okay.
This allows these teachers to collect unemployment during the summer.
Good news continues to come out of Michigan, except for Detroit. It’s like the Dems aren’t paying attention there. What are the chances that MI will go red this election?
Chicago - “Only the Beginning”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer communist state.
More of Obama’s “Hope and Change”. (He hopes you find a job; and he thinks you need a change in your work).
The California Teachers Union is a leftwing cesspool. Fire their top officials and you might begin to clean up the educational mess. Otherwise, stew in your own shit.
Many tens of thousands to go in all states in order to correct the problem. Privatize it all.
I wonder how this is going to affect teaching?
While I’m not sure how teaching will be affected the results can’t be any lower than they are now in California. It seems like spending on education has little to do with educating our children. The more we spend the worse the results. While I have no idea if it’s the teachers, the administrators, the students, the parents or society in general, all efforts are failing and no one is fixing the problem.
Many of us are sick and tired of paying more and more for less and less.
It is time that the teacher unions along with SEIU go on strike
Many of us and most of my friends are so fed up that they would see a strike as a chance to break the unions. I can say with certainty that I don’t know anyone who will vote for any tax increase or any bond issue of any type for any reason. That’s how fed up we are. Threaten all you want legislators, we’re willing to do whatever is necessary to starve you of increased revenue.
CA is laying off tens of thousands of government unionized parasites, and some bucket mouth from Georgia suggest this is a bad thing?
Good thinken Georgia!
I’m glad I was home schooled. When I had to go to a local school for tests I always placed in the high 90’s.
“So teachers get pink-slipped. Then they get to collect their salaries for sitting on their butts. Once the coast is clear, they get re-instated with full pay and BACK pay for the “injustice” of being laid off.”
Sorry, it doesn’t work that way, even here in California. Each teacher has a yearly contract which is either renewed or they get a pink slip before April first as prescribed by law. The state has usually “found a way” to “rehire” these layoffs before school starts in the Fall, but absent a contract, they will not be sitting around drawing a salary for doing nothing.
I appreciate the sentiment, but you misspelled endocrindocrination.
( Hah! “Spelling okay!” )
I hope you’re opissed off. I don’t coprrect spelling evwen I know It’s wrong just to piss off people lioke you!
And then sow that land with salt.
The opissisity is all on your side. I am in bliss.
“endocrindocrination”
Now that right there is a word.
Bet none of the unions laid off any of their people...(not teachers, but union bureaucrats) They still have their jobs, just teachers don’t....unions care about their own hide, not the teachers.....Unions make demands and business move or go out of business. Losers all around...
They have been doing this for years no big deal, they all get attorneys and keep right on working. And they get their attorneys fees paid as well.
There's a no-brainer for you. Children teach other children best anyway. I wouldn't have gone to school if it hadn't been for the crayons.
Budget cuts to education...reallY?
Seems like every election some school bond proposition passes, how are the funds to school being cut?
I don’t know if we’ll go GOP this time but we’re definitely shifting that way. A small shop near my home sent the teamsters packing yesterday.
We’ve also got a conservative UAW group growing in strength. If you recognize Terry Bowman, he made news recently after testifying against union political fundraising on capitol hill last month.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16292
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