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SFUSD board adopts proposed layoff decision after intense public pleas to spare classrooms
Summary
The San Francisco Unified School District board voted to adopt an administrative law judge's proposed decision and issue final certificated layoff notices after hearing hours of public testimony urging the board to rescind cuts to teachers, arts and language programs.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education voted to adopt an administrative law judge's proposed decision and to send final certificated layoff notices for the 2011'12 school year, a move district officials said was forced by an unfolding state budget crisis.
Superintendent Carlos Garcia told the board that the district had already cut $113,000,000 over the past two years and faces another $84,000,000 in reductions over two years, and presented a resolution to issue final certificated layoff notices. "None of us like what we're gonna have to do this evening," Garcia said as he summarized the district's budget projections and the legal steps required by state law.
The vote followed extensive…
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