Los Angeles Times | March 13, 2009 | 2:09 p.m. PT --- L.A. school officials drop plan to lay off 1,900 teachers Los Angeles school officials will drop a proposal to lay off as many as 1,900 permanent teachers. The decision, announced moments ago, spares jobs, disruptions at school sites and an expensive legal challenge that could have cost the Los Angeles Unified School District millions of dollars. Officials spared permanent teachers who work at elementary schools, many of which will still face class-size increases and a decrease in services as the nation's second-largest school system seeks to cut $596 million from next year's budget. Today's move is not a wholesale retreat from layoffs. More than 6,000 other employees still could be affected, including several thousand less-experienced teachers who have not yet worked long enough to achieve tenure protections. Read more at: http://link.latimes.com/r/P7B0FH/PLJ28/64ZCR3/4QMI/V120UG/6C/t
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