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Pink Slips Sent to Thousands of Calif. Teachers

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell gestures to a sign indicating that nearly 22,000 teachers could receive layoff notices due to budget cuts during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on March 15. Mr. O'Connell announced this year's pink slip tally on Monday, the legal deadline for school districts to send preliminary layoff notices. Last year, 60 percent of the 26,000 teachers who received pink slips ended up losing their jobs.
—Rich Pedroncelli/AP

By The Associated Press

Sacramento, Calif.

California's budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000 teachers their jobs this year.

State school districts had issued 21,905 pink slips to teachers and other school employees by Monday, the legal deadline for districts to send preliminary layoff notices.

Not all the threatened layoffs will be carried out. The final tally depends on the state budget to be adopted for...