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I am a teacher in a small suburban district near Los Angeles. Teachers who were hired as back as 2003 received pink slips on March 13th. LA Unified will be laying off many teachers, too. I just had a student teacher complete her student teaching in my classroom. She will be an outstanding teacher, but she cannot even get hired as a substitute. Unemployment in CA is at 10.5 percent. Factoring in discouraged workers, and those who can only find part time work, the real rate of unemployment is closer to 15 percent.
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