{"id":168649,"date":"2026-03-19T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:12:07","slug":"manhattan-beach-school-district-gives-layoff-notices-to-dozens-of-workers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168649\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach School District Gives Layoff Notices To Dozens Of Workers: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN BEACH, CA \u2014 As many as 60 Manhattan Beach Unified School District employees could soon be let go due to budget issues, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/2026\/03\/13\/potential-layoffs-at-manhattan-beach-unified-may-balance-budget-amid-ongoing-deficit\/?clearUserState=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new report from the Daily Breeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 certificated positions could be cut, including jobs like special education, math and science instructors; substitute teachers; and counselors and specialists, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the chopping block are 15 classified positions, which include support staff like assistants, secretaries, custodians, bus drivers, food service employees and information technology workers.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining positions are administrative roles like program directors and principals.<\/p>\n<p>Without reductions to the budget, the school district said that it anticipates being more than $6 million in debt by the 2027-28 school year. With the planned reductions, however, the district projects a surplus of more than $8 million by then.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Beach Unified Teachers\u2019 Association President Aaron Kofahl told the Breeze that the potential layoffs are &#8220;demoralizing&#8221; and &#8220;depressing&#8221; and that teachers were in tears when the layoff notices were handed out.<\/p>\n<p>Those who received pink slips this month are expected to find April 29 whether they\u2019ll receive final layoff notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN BEACH, CA \u2014 As many as 60 Manhattan Beach Unified School District employees could soon be let&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-168649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}