LA school board votes to lay off 5,400 employees
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LA school board votes to lay off 5,400 employees
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted to lay off as many as 5,400 teachers and support personnel for the upcoming school year.
The vote came Tuesday as employees protested raucously outside the meeting. The board had voted hours earlier to save the jobs of 1,996 elementary school teachers using federal stimulus funds.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, faces a $596 million budget shortfall for the 2009-10 school year.
The final number of layoffs remains to be determined because the exact amount of state and federal funds coming to the district remains unclear.
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via The Associated Press: LA school board votes to lay off 5,400 employees.
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