"STOCKTON, Calif. -- Lily Punao is a second-grade teacher at Pittman School in Stockton.
She knows some teachers will lose their jobs in the next school year. Those teachers who remain will be forced to have bigger class sizes, increasing from 20 students to 30.
'With more children in the class, it's harder to devote time to one-on-one, to really help the other kids targeting their specific needs,' she said.
'I don't see how we can because I have 20 here and I imagine 10 more kids, 10 more of everything -- I'm not going to be able to meet the needs of these kids,' fellow teacher Chris Mullen worried.
This year, the Stockton Unified District's board voted to increase class sizes and cut teachers, but reversed itself when $33 million in federal stimulus money came to the district."
