Thousands of California Teachers Await Layoff Fate
Roughly 14,000 teachers in California are expected to learn this week whether the layoff warnings they received in March—a consequence of the state’s fiscal emergency—will turn into final notices that they will be without jobs in the fall.
Because of a quirk in the state’s budget calendar, however, those personnel decisions will still be based on final fiscal 2009 budget figures that probably won’t be available until the end of the summer.
“The legislature still has to decide on a budget,” said Jean Ross, the executive director of the California Budget Project, a Sacramento-based budget-analysis group. “We...
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Correction:
In an earlier version of this story we incorrectly identified California's per-pupil expenditure ranking on Education Week's Quality Counts 2008 report. It should have said California was ranked 46th.
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