Posted on 06/12/2009 3:28:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced today that they were canceling nearly 500 layoff notices.
Administrators at school sites opted to use funds to "buy back" 500 positions, including those of teachers and counselors, according to the district. L.A. Unified faces a nearly $133-million deficit this fiscal year and has issued preliminary layoff notices to about 2,500 employees.
The district must resolve this year's deficit before July 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Funds? Where are these “funds” coming from?
As a rule of thumb it takes about 1000 real private sector layoffs to get the same MSM attention as 1 potential public sector layoff. And as we see here most threats of public sector layoffs are just publicity stunts.
From you, if you live here in CA. ._.
Yay! 500 more people dedicated to mass production of illiterate imbeciles! Looks like more good news for the Democrat party.
Yeah, I noticed they weren’t clear on that. If they had funds to run the school without taxes then why were they taking taxes? Where did these mysterious “funds” come from?
“Where did these mysterious “funds” come from?”
The “Take your gay Partner To Las Vegas Travel Fund”, and the “Computer repair graft/Bribery funds, silly....
Probably going to borrow against future tax increases.
I fully understand this as a former computer teacher.
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