Published: October 27, 2009

Ariz. Official Warns of 'Massive' Teacher Layoffs

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona faces the prospect of large-scale layoffs of school teachers next year due to the state's budget problems, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said Monday.

He said the "massive layoffs" of teachers are possible even though school districts' actual job cuts for the current school year fell short of reductions indicated by early layoff notices. The vast majority of those notices were rescinded, he said.

Horne's office said later Monday that Department of Education checks with school districts in August verified 2,990 layoff notices being issued last spring, of...