California Teacher Layoffs Decline Because Of Prop 30
After years of threatening to lay off tens of thousands of teachers due to budget shortfalls, California has some relatively good news: less than one-eighth of the number of teachers who got pink-slipped last year will be out of work next year.
After sending out 20,000 reduction In force notices to teachers last year, school districts in California have only sent out about 2,400 such letters so far this year, Dean Vogel, the president of the California Teachers Association union, told The Huffington Post. California educates one-eighth of the nation's students, and Friday is the last day school districts can let teachers know they may not have jobs next year.
The change follows California voters' passage in November of Proposition 30, which permanently raises income taxes on the wealthy while temporarily increasing the sales tax by a quarter of a penny in order to raise $6 billion in school and university funding.
"Had that not passed, we would have seen layoffs from the same category," Vogel said. "With the passage of
After sending out 20,000 reduction In force notices to teachers last year, school districts in California have only sent out about 2,400 such letters so far this year, Dean Vogel, the president of the California Teachers Association union, told The Huffington Post. California educates one-eighth of the nation's students, and Friday is the last day school districts can let teachers know they may not have jobs next year.
The change follows California voters' passage in November of Proposition 30, which permanently raises income taxes on the wealthy while temporarily increasing the sales tax by a quarter of a penny in order to raise $6 billion in school and university funding.
"Had that not passed, we would have seen layoffs from the same category," Vogel said. "With the passage of