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Thousands of California teachers will receive final layoff notices by a state-imposed deadline of May 15, even though school districts are still in the dark about their financial status in the coming school year.  The May 15 deadline follows a March 15 deadline, when school districts were... + read more

March 15 has become an annual ritual marked by pain and distress for thousands of California teachers who will receive pink slips by the end of the day today, or will be waiting to receive them in the mail. The last time most school districts did not have to issue layoff notices was in 2007-08... + read more

The number of Californians seeking to become teachers has plummeted by 45 percent over a seven year period – even as student enrollments are projected to rise by 230,000 over the next decade and as many as 100,000 teachers are expected to retire. Teaching is clearly becoming a less and... + read more

The publication of a controversial, and groundbreaking, article by the Los Angeles Times raises complex questions about whether to "out" teachers whose students perform poorly on reading and math tests. That is especially true when using "value-added" techniques that are... + read more

After a five-day standoff, teachers in Orange County finally put down their pickets Tuesday and returned to the classroom. Teachers and school officials at the Capistrano Unified School District forged an agreement around 11:30 p.m. Monday that would keep a hotly contested 10 percent pay cut... + read more

Fed up with what they called "stall tactics," the teachers union at the Capistrano Unified School District has gone on strike. Flickr photo by Adan Garcia It is the first teacher strike in the state this year and the first in Orange County in a decade, according to the Orange... + read more