California: Pink slips for 21,905 state teachers

[marmar]

via the San Francisco Chronicle:




Pink slips sent to thousands of Calif. teachers
By ROBIN HINDERY, Associated Press Writer

Monday, March 15, 2010

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(03-15) 16:18 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

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 the coming fiscal year.

Last year, 60 percent of the 26,000 teachers who received pink slips ended up losing their jobs.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell expected this year's actual job losses to be high, given the state's persistent budget problems and the smaller pool of education stimulus money available from the federal government. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/15/state/n131126D27.DTL&tsp=1

[tularetom]

1. Have no fear - our republican gubernatorial hopeful Whitman

Is gonna cut taxes and improve education. Or is she gonna cut education and improve taxes?

I notice that 21,000 prison guards did not get their layoff notices. Maybe the laid off teachers can get hired on as guards.

We just keep digging ourselves in deeper and deeper.

[inna]

6. The odious Whitman is campaigning on "cutting spending".

And taxes. :eyes:


How stupid/uninformed can people possibly be?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Wow

[RainDog]

3. How is this going to end?

a california economic dust bowl?

[Tansy_Gold]

7. options -----

"Nulle terre sans seigneur is French and means literally “no land without a lord.” It is was the feudal law and principle that one provides services to the sovereign for the right to receive land, protection and all basic needs from the sovereign lord. It is the basis of feudalism. Feudalism meant complete dependency on the sovereign lord. Feudal serfdom was better than slavery, but only slightly. It most certainly was not freedom."

http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=4452


or







Feudalism or revolution. Take your pick.


Tansy Gold

[janedum]

4. Quickest way OUT of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fire gov't workers

I'm very sorry about the teachers.
It's the OVERPAID government SLACKERS in Wash DC who should be dumped.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

Can you imagine how much it's gonna cost the American taxpayers to subsidize these retirements?

[Odin2005]

16. I see a TS pizza in your future

[roguevalley]

18. yeah. Imagine government keeping their promises to workers.

:sarcasm:

[Starry Messenger]

5. We're tremendously fucked.

I honestly don't know what's going to happen in this state.

[Tansy_Gold]

8. Go out on strike.

Lead, follow, or get out of . . . .. someone's???. . . . way.


:shrug: It's a thought.


from


Tansy Gold

[Starry Messenger]

10. There's some action starting to happen.

It's mostly at the colleges, but I have a feeling it's going to be spreading. Things are sort of in a nebulous fog of reaction. There's the usual group who feels that a firm leaflet informing parents is the ticket. That's where the K-12 teachers were at last week.

http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/Articles/Article.asp?title=Negotiating%20Teachers%20Contracts

# Work-to-rule/strike. Pressure tactics are common in confrontational bargaining. Teachers can decide to strictly follow the working hours in the contract (called "work to rule"), and they can also stage a sick-out or have informational picketing. The last resort is a strike, which the California Supreme Court has ruled permissible unless public health or safety is threatened. Teacher unions in California have rarely called strikes.

I guess we'll see.

[ibegurpard]

9. charter schools!

come on, you know it's coming...

[Karmadillo]

11. Maybe Obama will redirect some of the money from the Wars for Empire account

to the Save Public Education account.

[FarCenter]

12. If these are "preliminary layoff notices", they aren't really "pink slips"

Governments around the country are sending out these preliminary notices so that they have given the legal notice the required number of days ahead of time. That gives them the flexibility to actaually terminate some fraction of employees at a later time, depending on the results of budget negotiations.

[donco6]

14. Not usually.

Usually, non-renewals go out to teachers about this time each year. This means their contract will not be renewed, period. They may be able to re-apply for another position if one opens up, but it's irrespective of budget negotiations. All *that* settles is how many jobs *might* open up later. It's not an automatic placement. Once you get the non-renewal, it's pretty much over. In fact, they usually give you the chance to resign rather than take a non-renewal.

[TexasObserver]

13. Haven't you heard? They have it coming.

They should have known to get a job in a district with Republican money.

The notion that the teachers make the school bad or good largely misses the point.

The parents and their kids determine the quality of the school and the money it has for teachers. Send a teacher from one of those "good schools" to one of the bad schools and see how much success she has turning it around.

Blaming teachers and firing them en masse is the wrong approach. If a teacher is bad, remove him or her. Firing a bunch of teachers because the school lags is cowardly and wrong.

[roguevalley]

19. there are those here who would call that justice because they don't

get the unicorn sparkles in Obama's eyes.

I truly cannot recognize this country anymore and I'm old. Thank god. I have less time to be sad and anguished than you whippersnappers. Sorry. I hug you with great regret.

[Skittles]

20. I feel sorry for the younger folk who will never know the America that was

me and you, at least we got to see it

[progressoid]

15. sad k/r

[Odin2005]

17. We are so fucked.