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Thousands of California teachers receive layoff notices
By Kevin Martinez
1 April 2013
Thousands of layoff notices were sent out to teachers in mid-March across California, marking the fifth year in a row of mass teacher layoffs in the richest state of the nation.
When voters in California approved Proposition 30 last fall they were promised that it would halt and reverse the assault on public education, and that Governor Jerry Brown would spare the state’s education system from $5 billion in contemplated budget cuts.