{"id":300796,"date":"2017-03-26T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/san-diego-teachers-union-facilitates-the-layoff-of-1500-educators\/"},"modified":"2017-03-26T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T15:11:12","slug":"san-diego-teachers-union-facilitates-the-layoff-of-1500-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/san-diego-teachers-union-facilitates-the-layoff-of-1500-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego teacher\u2019s union facilitates the layoff of 1,500 educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>San Diego teacher\u2019s union facilitates the layoff of 1,500 educators<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Norisa Diaz and Archie Stone<br \/>\n    <br \/>25 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Last week, the San Diego Education Association (SDEA), held a series of layoff meetings at the end of the workday for the 1,500 pre-kindergarten to 12th grade educators who have been issued pink slip layoff notices by the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) for the 2017-2018 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>In February, following hours of pleas and testimonies from employees, students and community members, the SDUSD Board of Trustees voted 5-0 to proceed with the layoffs, justified by the need to cover a $124 million budget deficit. Following the vote, the board told the devastated attendees it was their \u201cfiduciary responsibility\u201d to balance the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the SDEA layoff information meetings was, in the words of union officials, to \u201cmake sure that everyone is being laid off properly.\u201d In addition to educators, the layoffs include counselors, library clerks, custodians, art instructors, food service workers and occupational therapy specialists. Since 2008, nearly $8.1 billion in funding has been slashed from California\u2019s public education and community colleges, and another $2 billion from its higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Offering no significant challenge, the SDEA presents the layoffs as an acceptable action undertaken during \u201cbudgetary crises,\u201d so long as they are \u201clegal\u201d and carried out according to the contract parameters. The union made no pretense of appealing to teachers and other sections of workers throughout the state and beyond to oppose the layoffs, let alone rallying the 7,000 members who run the second largest school district in the state of California.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the sole focus of SDEA\u2019s response is the preparations for a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/25\/sdea-m25.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 San Diego teacher\u2019s union facilitates the layoff of 1,500 educators By Norisa Diaz and Archie Stone 25 March 2017 Last week, the San Diego Education Association (SDEA), held a series of layoff meetings at the end of the workday for the 1,500 pre-kindergarten to 12th grade educators who have been issued pink slip layoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}