A National Council on Teacher Quality survey of 74 large, urban school districts across the country finds that the districts laid off approximately 2.5 percent of their teaching forces for the 2011-2012 school year, amounting to 9,545 teachers.
Hardest hit were districts in California, as San Diego, Long Beach, and Sacramento each laid off about 20 percent of their teachers, the highest layoff proportions of all districts surveyed.