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5,500 School Employees Axed After Cuts


School districts are feeling the heat of the state legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer’s $133 million cuts from K-12 schools.  From today’s Arizona Republic:

An estimated 5,500 employees at 120 school districts in the state were recently handed pink slips warning them they may not have jobs next school year, an Arizona Republic survey has found. About 4,000 of those employees were teachers.


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