Superintendent Ramon Cortines' original layoff indicated to be 8400 was reduced today to 8400 teachers and support personnel. The L.A. Weekly today published a brief item this afternoon, "Cortines Give Teachers the (Pink) Slip," http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/cortines-gives-teachers-the-pi/ It also refers to other sources including the Daily Breeze for the figure of 4700 teachers to be laid off.
You can see the the pdf file for the annoucement today from the UTLA of a tentative contract agreement with the LAUSD. Among the provisions included in the single page (of a two-page fax; apparently page 2 "more details" was not posted on thehttp://www.utla.net/system/files/contractagreement_20090324.pdfsite at this time), was a "No furlough days for this year." In some cases, furlough days can result in a spreading of the pain so that less numbers will lose jobs- I don't know if that was a consideration here or not.
Members still will have to vote to decide whether the terms will be accepted.
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