With the ink barely dry on a $183 million agreement that ended the historic San Francisco teachers strike this month, the district will ask the school board to approve preliminary layoff notices for 42 educators and other staff.
The pink slips, which, by law, must be issued by March 15 each year, give the teachers advance warning that they could lose their positions at the end of the school year. Another round goes out in May to confirm the action.
The number, announced in the board’s agenda Friday night, is a striking decrease from a year earlier, when 298 layoffs notices were sent out. District officials said a big part of that was the use of 111 temporary teachers under contract and better data systems to track vacancies and staffing needs…