{"id":280751,"date":"2010-02-04T20:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8633c37970b"},"modified":"2010-02-04T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:50:57","slug":"city-schools-chief-to-take-next-monday-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280751","title":{"rendered":"City schools chief to take next Monday off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines said Thursday that he plans to take a furlough day next week and hopes other district employees follow his example.<\/p>\n<p>The district is facing a deficit of up to $670 million and officials have been urging union members to take four unpaid furlough days. If every L.A. Unified employee took four furlough days, the district could save an estimated $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>Four unions have agreed to take a monthly furlough day until May. Senior staff and non-union members must also take the time off. Teachers union officials have said they are willing to consider furlough days but want to make sure\u00a0all other possibilities have been exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Cortines often reports to work before 5 a.m., so it remains to be seen whether he can resist making a few work-related phone calls\u00a0Monday. It seems unlikely that he&#8217;ll attempt to run the district electronically, however, as the famously non-computer savvy superintendent\u00a0doesn&#8217;t type his own e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jason Song\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines said Thursday that he plans to take a furlough day next week and hopes other district employees follow his example. The district is facing a deficit of up to $670 million and officials have been urging union members to take four unpaid furlough days. If every L.A. Unified employee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}