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On Tuesday, the board voted to extend the deadline until May for staff wanting to opt for early retirement. When the board opened the early retirement window late last year, about 100 employees took the offer.Nearly a half dozen SoCal universities advise staff on how to handle immigration enforcement on campus
“As we were talking about that, the door handle started to jiggle and she just jumped up and froze, and I said, ‘Hey, mija, don't worry. They can't come in here. Let me go see who it is,’” he said. ”You're starting to see now some of the trauma come up in our students.”According to officials, at the beginning of the pandemic, the school district had 47,000 enrolled students, but that has since dropped to 36,000, with some families moving out of the city.
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