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Pink Slips Continued

OK, so maybe it’s not the clearest data on Planet Earth, but it’s what arrived in my mailbox today.  Basically, it says the union is asking for a 95:5 teacher: administrator ratio.
That would mean 30,057 teachers and 1024.18 administrators in the union’s ideal world.
The latest district proposal is 30,057 teachers: 1582 administrators (rounding so we [...]

Pink Slips Action Update

The CTA (California Teachers Association) has set up a social network to post your pink slip stories and actions and to get updates: kind of an ideas central.  Check it out here.
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Pink Slips

Yesterday was Pink Slip Friday in LAUSD.  Friends and colleagues started texting at 6:30 in the morning reminding each other to wear pink, though preferably not pink slips or lingerie of any public sort, to work.  It was festive and light-hearted, perhaps because it (and we) were still bleary-eyed about it all.
Then we went to [...]