More than 10,100 teachers will see pink slips in their mailboxes over the next few days as districts up and down California meet a Saturday deadline to warn staff of anticipated layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.
Kristen Vogel is expecting two pink slips at her house.
The third-year San Francisco elementary school teacher knows she'll get one. A substitute principal at her school broke the news Monday. A union letter confirmed it Wednesday. The district's official certified letter is likely to arrive over the weekend.
Her husband, a fourth-grade teacher in his first year at a school in Santa Rosa, is waiting for one, too, but because he's a temporary teacher, the district doesn't have to tell him until the end of the school year.
The pink slips have to go out to comply with state law. But is this a bit of political theater? More fortunate operations of law laying the groundwork for Arnold to raise taxes without completely alienating the right? Or at least the mid-right since the right-right always feels alienated by, like, stuff.
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