Two Dozen RSM-Area Teachers on the Chopping Block

Tesoro High could lose eight teachers and Las Flores Elementary could lose more than half its first-grade teachers if a proposed list of personnel cuts is implemented by the Capistrano Unified School District.

All told, 26 local teachers at six schools are affected.

Three elementary schools would lose 14 teachers, while two middle schools could lose four teachers and Tesoro High could lose eight.

Teachers included in the list include Brian Barnes, a physical education teacher who is also the school's football coach.

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Three of the five first-grade teachers at Las Flores Elementary are also on the list, and half the third-grade teachers at Tijeras Creek are also threatened. 

Hardest hit are first-grade teachers, as four are listed; three teachers are targeted in third and fifth grades.

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Special education also took a hit, with three teachers listed.

The chart below includes each Rancho Santa Margarita-area school that has a teacher who received a layoff letter dated March 1.

There are three potential statuses: Permanent, meaning the teachers have tenure; "rehired/temp" means they were previously either permament or in a probationary period and were laid off, then later rehired as a temporary employee; and, temporary, meaning they work on one-year contracts.

To read why the district finds itself in this bind, and how this year's laid-off teachers may not be rehired as in years past, .

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