May 9, 2008 4:53 pm US/Pacific
Teachers May Be Forced Out Of State Due To Cuts
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
Today, the head of state schools voiced his concern that budget cuts may force teachers to move out of the state for jobs. Tonight, CBS13 asks the question: Could California end up with a teacher shortage?
Now marching at the state capitol to save his job, just two years ago, Guillermo Gomez was named San Diego County teacher of the year.
"Some people are capitalizing in the misfortune of the state," he says.
Like the roughly 20,000 educators state-wide, he received a pink slip making him a prime target.
"They are also giving 3,000 bonus sign if they go there," Gomez says.
"States from Nevada, Texas, Virginia, and Hawaii, so we really have now what I am calling education poaching," say officials.
Education poaching, as state superintendent Jack O'Connell calls it – he says is threatening to create a teaching shortage in California.
"When we have a bad budget the teacher pipeline really dries up," says O'Connell.
Something local teachers say will ultimately fall on our students.
"Now there's going to be more kids in each class they don't get the quality education that they deserve," says a local teacher.
But with the prospect of being unemployed, Gomez says it's hard not to be enticed to go where there are jobs.
"My family is in San Diego if the right offer comes I'd think about it," says Gomez.
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