In the face of a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines ordered an immediate hiring freeze Monday and cut other expenses, including travel, conferences and food at district meetings... "Despite the pressure of a severely curtailed budget, despite the challenge of meeting our education mandate, we will live up to our responsibility to educate the children of LAUSD."It's rare to see a unionized profession capable of contracting when necessary. Of course, there is a little flexibility:
The only exceptions to the hiring freeze will be for classroom teachers, principals, assistant principals, cafeteria managers, school police officers, bus drivers[,] teachers' assistants, education aides, special education assistants and plant managers.The burning question now is, who are they hiring besides classroom teachers, principals, assistant principals, cafeteria managers, school police officers, bus drivers, teachers' assistants, education aides, special education assistants and plant managers??
According to the district, other exceptions will only be considered for requests that are considered essential to school and district operations.
Hat tip to BOTWT.
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