Posted on 03/21/2025 1:55:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Thousands of teachers in California are at risk of losing their jobs due to the state's budget cuts going into the 2025-26 school year, according to the California Teachers Association (CTA), which represents 300,000 school employees.
Why It Matters
Schools are experiencing layoffs due to limited budgets, overstaffing and declining enrollment. Many federal coronavirus relief funds were also used to increase school budgets, but those funds are now drying up five years later.
What To Know
The majority of the 2,300 school employees being let go are credentialed school staff, which include teachers, school nurses and librarians, according to the CTA.
Notices of impending layoffs are sent by March 15 each year for that respective school year, according to state law.
Many of the affected teachers live in areas impacted by the recent wildfires, including more than 100 employees at Pasadena Unified who already received preliminary layoff notices.
Some districts fought against mass layoffs by offering retirement incentives instead. That includes San Francisco, which is providing buyouts to 300 veteran teachers amid larger layoffs in the district.
The highest number of layoffs are concentrated in San Francisco Unified, where 395 staff members are being let go, and Santa Ana Unified, where 351 teachers received layoff notices, according to CTA data. However, according to Ron Hacker, Santa Ana Unified's chief business officer, that number has been reduced to 280, EdSource reported.
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Always yell about teacher cuts, don’t mention the excessive administrators they’re not cutting.
How did lockdown money find its way to schools?
Because Newsom and the Democrats squandered tens of billions of dollars on illegal immigrants.
Back on point, most of the “teachers” are worthless anyway, with High school student educational levels a record lows right now.
They finish high school and still can't read or do math properly.
If they’re not teaching:
STEM
English
Trade skills (auto shop, wood shop, etc)
US History
Us Civics
Then they should all go. Time to get back to basics!
The richest people in the country live in Cali. Ante up!
They are letting the most senior teachers go. Which makes no sense from a teaching and management perspective, but it does move them off the payroll and into the state pension program.
Last year’s budget for the LA Unified School District was $18.4 billion! Where is all the money going?
Yet we never hear of classrooms being doubled up as a result.
Many, many useless administrative/support staff are classified are teachers all the way up to superintendent in order to get in on the periodic public votes for teacher pay increases.
In unrelated news, next year avg test scores and literacy will improve by 10 points.
“The richest people in the country live in Cali. Ante up!”
That is the entire problem, the rich are a thin line running down the coast, the rest are no richer or no poorer than their peers in Nevada. They think the state is rich, but 7/8th of the population is just average people supporting the royal class.
Electrical Power, State Income Taxes are higher. But heating and cooling costs, insurance and all other utilities are cheaper, even water.
If the number of students per teacher ratio becomes an issue after the cuts, start removing illegal’s kids from school. Since USA citizens are paying the school taxes, only the kids of USA citizens should be in the schools.
When registering a kid for school we provide SS number, shot records, etc. Start including a paid state or county tax invoice as part of the required documentation for admission.
USA citizens that are renters will need some other proof ie parents birth cert, naturalization papers, etc.
...The majority of the 2,300 school employees being let go are credentialed school staff, which include teachers, school nurses and librarians, according to the CTA...
Wanna bet they keep a higher percentage of anybody who does anything besides allegedly teaching...
:: The richest people in the country live in Cali. Ante up! ::
Those fine rich people will just ante-up a new, larger cap on H1B visas.
I can see their protest signs already:
“But who will groom the children?”
Our local school district has had a 12% drop in enrollment in the last 5 years. Administrative costs are up and teacher wages are up. Given that funding is based on headcount, it’s totally unsurprising that staffing will be reduced. See also quality concerns.
Notice how few of those laid off are administrative staff?
Back in the dark ages (1950s) in a small town in Wisconsin, each school I went to had a principal who also was a full-time teacher. The only administrative staff consisted of a couple of secretaries in the school office, the custodian, the school nurse (In white uniform) and maybe a couple of ladies in the kitchen.
The admin / bureaucrats out number teachers 3-1 or worse in school systems.
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