Teachers' dim future: budget cuts, cramped classes - SFGate

Jill Tucker at the Chronicle writes,

When Jay LaViolette tells people he's a public school teacher, the reactions range from disinterest to sympathy.

In his fourth year teaching in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley Middle School, he is far from the highest paid among his friends and, on top of that, he lacks job security.

It is a tough job that's getting harder, he said.

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