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Mar 31, 2009 5:02 pm US/Pacific

LAUSD Board Delays Vote On Layoffs

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The Los Angeles Board of Education has put off a vote on whether to lay off thousands of teachers and other workers because of a huge budget deficit in the nation's second-largest school district.

Crowds of teachers and support workers packed the board room Tuesday and demonstrated loudly outside.

The board previously approved sending notices of impending layoffs to nearly 9,000 employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District but has not implemented them.

Superintendent Ramon Cortines says the district will go bankrupt without the layoffs. But when a board member indicated the decision might be put off for a month, he asked that it only be delayed to April 14. Cortines said he will meet with all the district's unions to discuss alternatives including salary cuts and furloughs.

The district faces a $718 million budget shortfall.

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