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56 Teachers To Receive Layoff Notices In Temecula

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May 9, 2008 1:59 pm US/Pacific

56 Teachers To Receive Layoff Notices In Temecula

TEMECULA The Temecula Valley Unified School District Friday announced that 56 teachers will receive layoff notices because of looming cuts in state funding to education.

The board voted Friday in a special meeting to lay off a total of 82 teachers, but 26 will be transferred to other teaching positions, according to Melanie Norton of the school district.

The other 56 will receive layoff notices next week. However, they could keep their jobs if the layoffs are rescinded by June 30, which is the end of the fiscal year.

If the layoffs are rescinded after that date, the teachers could still be rehired, but would have to reapply for their jobs, according to school officials.

"Today's decision was one of the hardest our board has had to make," Norton said. "It's not one that any of them wanted to make, but one that the state has forced them to make. We've been forced to take some of our best and brightest teachers out of the classroom, all because of the state's budget problems," Norton said.

The layoffs are necessary because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed slashing education funding to reduce a state budget deficit.

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