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Los Angeles school district and union officials announced Saturday that they have agreed to cut a dozen instructional days over the next two years to balance the budget.<\/p>\n
If\u00a0approved by\u00a0members of both the teachers and administrators unions,\u00a0the move would save the district about $140 million, according to Los Angeles Unified School District officials. The district is facing a $640-million deficit. <\/p>\n
District officials had been urging unions to make concessions to help with the budget crisis, and several have already agreed to furloughs. <\/p>\n
Administrators agreed to the furlough days on Monday night, and the teachers union reached a deal late Friday, representatives said at a news conference Saturday.<\/p>\n
"It is extremely important in going forward that we have this kind of partnership," said Supt. Ramon C. Cortines.<\/p>\n
Five days would be cut from this year’s calendar and seven from next year’s calendar, although\u00a0educators would have two extra paid professional development days next year. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Under a new state law aimed at easing the budget crisis, school districts still will receive full funding for a year even if they eliminate some instructional days.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The deal also would preserve current student to teacher ratios in elementary and middle schools and\u00a0would save about 1,800 teacher jobs as well as 300 librarian, nurse and counselor positions.<\/p>\n
— Jason Song <\/p>\n
Photo: Students arrive for their first day of school at Los Angeles school district and union officials announced Saturday that they have agreed to cut a dozen instructional days over the next two years to balance the budget. If\u00a0approved by\u00a0members of both the teachers and administrators unions,\u00a0the move would save the district about $140 million, according to Los Angeles Unified School District officials. The district […]<\/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-480351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480351","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=480351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe new Central High #9 for the visual and performing arts downtown Los
\nAngeles. Credit: Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times. File photo.
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