The governor and others are talking about exercising an untested bit of Education Code that allows school districts to lay off teachers and other certificated employees on "August 15th." While there are tremendous mid-year budget reductions coming to us from the state as early as July and guaranteed in their tremendous size, I have no intention and I know of no one in Riverside who is recommending such action. We value our employees and have no interest in that strategy or action. There will be school districts that will exercise this option as they have little choice.
As a point of interest, to accomplish an August 15th layoff, we would need to take official Board action before the end of June to meet all the timelines involved with an August 15th layoff process. We went through a difficult notification process in March to notify certificated employees of the possibility of layoff which was followed with an actual layoff in May. Why would we choose to turn around inside of 30 days of the final layoff notice process and start laying off teachers and others again? Poor planning?
Dr. Miller,
ReplyDeleteA fellow employee informed me that you did a live blog, and I finally made it online to check it out. Thank you very much for keeping everyone updated. In a time of economic crisis your blog is informative and interesting. I look forward to checking it out more often. Thank you for all that you do for our district!