GLENDALE UNIFIED PUTS 70 TEACHERS ON TENURE TRACK.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - Seventy temporary teachers have been granted permanent status by Glendale Unified, and union officials are urging the district to put dozens more on the track to tenure. Roughly 230 of the district 1,350 teachers are considered temporary, without a guaranteed job from one year to the next. The Glendale Teachers Association wants that number reduced to 130. ``The temporary teachers have a really bad deal,'' GTA GTA Grand Theft Auto (legal) GTA Grand Theft Auto (video game) GTA Greater Toronto Area (Canada) GTA Graduate Teaching Assistant President Allen Freemon said. ``They have absolutely no due process. At the end of every year basically they're released and then rehired.'' School districts commonly use temporary teachers to fill in for instructors on maternity MATERNITY. The state or condition of a mother. 2. It is either legitimate or natural. The former is the condition of the mother who has given birth to legitimate children, while the latter is the condition of her who has given birth to illegitimate children. and extended medical leaves. As Glendale Unified's enrollment continues to plummet, officials also expect to reduce staffing by simply not recalling some temporary teachers. Crescenta Valley High School Crescenta Valley High School is an secondary school located at 2900 Community Avenue in La Crescenta-Montrose, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The school is a part of the Glendale Unified School District. teacher Stefane Zamorano gained permanent status last year, in her fourth year of teaching at the district. ``What new teachers want is some sort of way to understand how the system works,'' Zamorano said. ``I think throughout our communities we've always been told we need teachers, we need teachers. And then suddenly you get your first pink slip which says you are being released from your job.'' School board member Chuck Sambar sambar: see wapiti. said the district must keep some teachers on temporary status, but it moved to shrink shrink Vox populi noun A psychiatrist the pool of such teachers because some had been on temporary status for five years. ``It's not like we just took a magic wand a wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic. See also: Magic and said, 'Put these 70 people on a tenure track,''' Sambar said. ``It took over two years for this process to work through.'' Due in part to high housing prices, Glendale Unified is seeing its largest enrollment drop in at least 25 years. The district has nearly 28,000 students, but it expects enrollment to drop by 2,350 before the end of 2010. Because the district loses money when enrollment drops, officials expect their budget woes to be compounded by the loss of students. ``If the funding isn't there for us to support a permanent employee, then it's not there,'' said school board member Greg Krikorian. ``It is what it is. There's some hard business reality there that we have to take into consideration.'' The school board moved the 70 temporary teachers to probationary pro·ba·tion n. 1. A process or period in which a person's fitness, as for work or membership in a social group, is tested. 2. a. status last month, and the teachers will start in the fall with tenure. School officials said they do not know when the district might move another block of teachers to permanent status. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Sarah Lee Sara Lee or Sarah Lee is the name of:
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