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Superintendent Garcia Announces All Teacher Layoffs To Be RescindedMay 7, 2008
By Dennis KellyOn the heels of the Board of Supervisors' vote confirming their intent to release $20 million from the San Francisco Rainy Day Fund, Superintendent Carlos Garcia announced this morning that he will recommend rescinding all certificated layoffs. Several of the morning’s speakers joined with us in raising the need now to reinstate the paraprofessional jobs that are threatened.
I joined the speakers applauding today’s announcement and yesterday’s vote, but I warned that we could not take satisfaction in this moment of salvation in light of what we had been subjected to. Education spending did not create the state’s economic problems. Those stem from the Governor and his political ambitions. While we can be grateful to and proud of our local leaders and citizens for standing up and supporting the children and the schools, we must not forgive those who willfully created the situation.
But the battles never stop. Now is the time to turn our attention to Proposition A and the only likely hope we have for raises for teachers. Thank you and congratulations to the Building Reps and UESF members who have joined us. We had over 70 precinct walkers last Saturday and more than 35 members in our office on the phones one night last week.
Together we are changing the face of education in San Francisco.
