Layoffs
Layoff database: Nearly 350 teachers get their jobs back
June 07, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, The Orange County
Register Nearly
350 teachers and other certificated school staff members have
regained their jobs, either thanks to a layoff warning that wasn't
finalilzed or via rehiring by their districts after they received
their final notice. That brings the amount of certificated staff to
elude layoffs up to 40 percent, with some districts still to report
their actions since layoff warnings were issued March 15. Still,
that leaves about 1,100 temporary teachers and scores of classified
employees facing job losses. In all, our partial list has more than
2,259 employees who faced termination or hour reductions at some
point in school budgeting efforts…
Teacher columnist's layoff rescinded
June 01, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Column: Carol Veravanich, The Orange County
Register I do
not think I complain about my salary. I am not asking for more nor
am I calling for raises. I do grow tired of people saying we are
overpaid, which is not the case, and I think the cuts coming to our
salaries are significant. The last part of your letter really made
me think. I received news today that I have a job next year, where
I thought I was laid off after receiving my final notice. It is a
strange year when this all happens. I am feeling relieved to have
my job back and yet your last sentence about all of those people
who would love to replace me really hit home. I know how true that
is, as I was just one of those people a few hours ago worried about
what I would do for a job next year.
Capistrano district seeks mediator to get teacher pay cuts
June 25, 2009 Filed in: Unions
Scott Martindale, The Orange County Register
The Capistrano Unified
School District is asking a state mediator to intervene in contract
negotiations with its teachers after union leaders balked at a
proposed 10 percent pay cut for all educators, calling it
"inflammatory and insulting." In a press release this week,
Capistrano Unified officials said union leaders are unwilling to
continue negotiations over the summer despite efforts to reach an
agreement that would "provide relief to the district while at the
same time preserve CUSD, restore teaching positions, avoid
increasing class sizes and save jobs…"
O.C. schools finalize more than 1,500 teacher cuts
May 18, 2010 Filed in: Budget & Finance
| Unions
Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale This year, many districts are relying
heavily on negotiations with unions for furlough days, salary
reductions and other concessions that could pare away at their
layoff numbers, officials said. Capistrano Unified, Magnolia
and Anaheim
Union High school
districts, for example, have already rescinded dozens of notices
after receiving some concessions from unions in new contracts.
Capistrano Unified rescinded 38 of 84 layoff notices to tenured
teachers and other certificated staff after union leaders and
trustees settled a long-running contract dispute. “We are doing
everything we can to retain personnel and not increase class
sizes,” Capistrano Trustee Ken Lopez-Maddox said. “But the state
budget is in a tailspin and we don’t yet know what it holds for
public education. We are doing all we can to brace ourselves for
what Sacramento
might do.”
Teacher columnist receives final layoff notice
May 19, 2010 Filed in: Unions
Carol Veravanich, The Orange County Register
I am responding to your
writer who "wonders how they [those who criticize teachers] would
do spending one week in the classroom." I taught for nine years
then moved to the private sector, where I worked for the next 28
years. I mean no disrespect when I state that teaching is far
easier. I also wonder: Do educators really understand how their
benefits compare to the private sector? We could start with tenure
and continue with health benefits, vacation and sick pay, and
contracted work days. Perhaps you should dedicate a column to this
subject…
Landmark ruling on teacher layoffs
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Litigation | Unions
Column: John Festerwald, The Educated Guess
- A Superior Court judge
has served notice to school districts statewide that the seniority
rights of teachers do not trump the fundamental right of students
to an equal opportunity for a good education. Los Angeles Superior
Court Judge William Highberger issued a preliminary injunction
Wednesday preventing any teacher layoffs for budgetary reasons at
three Los Angeles Unified middle schools where large numbers of
teachers have been given pink slips…
School layoffs: More than 1,915 teachers listed
May 10, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, The Orange County
Register Orange
County school layoff warning list: Search here for teachers and
other staff who have been issued layoff warning notices or who have
been informed their temporary teaching contracts won't be renewed
for 2010-11. School districts are beginning to make final layoff
decisions, rescinding warnings sent by March 15 for some and
finalizing others as the state's May 15 deadline
approaches...
To cut $365 million, schools eye furloughs, short year
March 11, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, The Orange County
Register Orange
County students are likely to lose up to a week of instruction next
year while classes grow ever more crowded, teachers are let go and
course options shrink. Employee furloughs – up to 10 days long –
have joined class-size increases and teacher layoffs as favored
options for balancing 2010-11 budgets at local school districts,
which need to slash $365.3 million even after consecutive years of
deep cuts...