Mass Layoffs Loom for Teachers

Unless additional money is forthcoming from the federal government, many school districts will be forced to layoff large numbers of school teachers. The NY times article "Districts Warn of Deeper Teacher Cuts" reports that hundreds of thousands of teacher jobs around the country may be eliminated. The Los Angeles school district is one of the school districts facing deep potential cuts in jobs where last month the Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines sent layoff notices to 5,200 of the district’s 80,000 employees.