School board to look at layoffs

About 8,400 L.A. Unified employees - more than half of them teachers and campus staff - would be laid off and class sizes would balloon under a cost-cutting plan the school board will review today.George B. Sanchez in the Daily News.

While the layoff number is slightly less than the 8,800 originally threatened for the 2009-10 school year, the cuts would still cram more students into classes and increase work loads for campus counselors and administrators.

The cuts take into account some of the expected $1 billion in federal stimulus money set aside for LAUSD. But district officials say they are still not sure when the money will arrive and note that half of it is already designated for specific programs and can not be used to save jobs.