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California and Sacramento-area teachers took pay hits last year - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

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California and Sacramento-area teachers took pay hits last year

dlambert@sacbee.com

PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, JAN. 04, 2012


School districts across California slashed teacher payrolls by historic amounts last school year, cutting 15,000 teachers and $1 billion from their budgets, according to a Bee review of new state data.

The roughly 5.5 percent statewide reduction in teaching payroll eclipsed the 3 percent cut the prior year.

"This $1 billion comes on top of years of cuts," said Eric Heins, vice president of the California Teachers Association, the state's largest teachers union. "Overall, we have lost 40,000