5000? 5400? 6850? The numbers of LAUSD layoffs like the size of the budget deficit and the size of the federal stimulus remains unknown. But however many of them there are they are like, so fired! Or not.

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Update 4/15 | 3pm:

• Before yesterday’s vote to “save” 1996 elementary school jobs Reduction in Force/RIF/layoff  notices  had been sent to 10,571 employees.

• The final vote technically authorized 8,541 layoffs,

• Superintendent Ramon Cortines and Chief Financial Officer Megan Reilly said the district would route state funding to individual schools, allowing them to "buy back" 3,167 positions

• Resulting in a final estimate of 5,374 layoffs.

“Allowing them” being the mother of all assumptions. - smf

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LAUSD OKs plan to lay off 6850 employees

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