Tag: Layoffs

  • Fourth Grader: I Feel So Sad About What’s Happening

    By Will Carless As an added bonus to my coverage of the layoff crisis at San Diego Unified this week, here are five videos I shot with my iPhone at Central Elementary School. I spent three days at San Diego schools this week, trying to understand what impact the school district’s decision to lay off…

  • Where Layoffs Destroy a School’s Fabric

    Laura Barragan has known her son Nathan’s preschool teacher, Athena Gonzalez, for six years. That’s because Gonzalez also taught Barragan’s 5-year old daughter, Joanna, and her 9-year-old son, Angel. Barragan has a lot of uncertainty in her life. She doesn’t know whether her husband will keep his job as the recession continues to roll on.…

  • What Layoffs Do to a City Heights Classroom

    I visited Central Elementary School in City Heights on Tuesday morning as part of a three-day reporting project to see the impact of San Diego Unified’s layoff crisis at the school level. With one in five teachers at city schools currently being laid off, I wanted to see how the financial mess is affecting teachers,…