Beneath the thousands of teacher layoffs are stories of uncertain futures for Inland families
10:15 PM PDT on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Inland area's laid-off teachers are cutting their household budgets and learning to tell their children no.
They have turned off their air conditioners and no longer can buy the things they used to take for granted.
They are looking for jobs, even though Inland districts have cut hundreds of positions.
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Kristy Orona Ramirez, 37, of Riverside, has a garage full of school supplies she used as a teacher for 13 years. She is among the many Inland teachers who have been given layoff notices and says she and her husband are "looking at filing for bankruptcy."
Public education in California has received $17 billion less in state funding than