Layoffs in Education

Angeles school board on Tuesday approved a plan to close a $470 million budget gap in the next academic year by cutting more than 5,000 jobs if unions do not agree to givebacks and voters do not approve a parcel tax.

As some 300 employees protested outside the board offices, district Superintendent Ramon Cortines outlined a preliminary series of options to make up the revenue shortfall, saying that layoffs of teachers and other employees would be a last resort for the nation's second-largest school district.

Miriam Adler, a special education teacher at Verdugo Hills High, tells PinkSlipMixers how the cuts affect her school, students and her living expenses.

I posted this to see your thoughts about what is being done to the education system. In the video they said that the layoffs are discouraging students from going into the Liberal Studies field. Are you discouraged by it? If not, why?