Tag: Teacher Layoffs

  • Teach for America Schools SD Unified On Recruiting Diverse Teachers

    David Lopez is executive director of Teach for America in San Diego. | Photo by Sam Hodgson By Mario Koran Apparently, it’s just not cool to be a teacher these days. Far fewer young people are setting out to become teachers. In recent years, the number of students in California teacher preparation programs has plummeted.…

  • Teachers Union Deal Explained

    By Will Carless In the latest edition of San Diego Explained, NBC 7 San Diego’s Catherine Garcia and I tackle the tentative agreement between the San Diego Unified School District and the San Diego Education Association, the union that represents local teachers. The deal, which was ratified overwhelmingly by teachers Wednesday, saves the jobs of more than 1,000 teachers.…

  • San Diego Unified Bringing Back All Laid-Off Teachers

    By Will Carless Every one of the 1,372 teachers laid off earlier this year by the San Diego Unified School District will be back at school by Sept. 1, under a two-year deal agreed to by the district and the teachers union today. Negotiators for the San Diego Education Association, the local teachers union, agreed…

  • 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.…