Dive Brief:
- Los Angeles Unified School District is hiring new teachers and being pickier about those it hires, reversing a trend of hiring freezes and layoffs.
- Next year the district expects to hire about 1,300 teachers, after the more than 700 it hired this year.
- Since June 2010, nearly 4,000 teachers, counselors and other staff members had been laid off.
Dive Insight:
The news comes after a recent look at national K-12 staffing levels showed that many school districts across the country have not recovered from job cuts that took place during the recession. Nationwide, public schools employ about 250,000 fewer people than before the recession.
