No teachers have been laid off ahead of the 2025-26 school year at some of the largest Inland Empire school districts.
California law requires public school districts to notify employees with teaching certificates by March 15 if they might be laid off — and make it official by May 15. After that, no more teachers can be laid off in the coming school year.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office, which advises the California Legislature, has criticized this process. It noted that school districts often send out more Reduction In Force (RIF) notices than they need to, keeping teachers in limbo for weeks, as the state budget grinds slowly toward passage.
The end result this year, though, is that no teachers in the Alta Loma School District, Moreno Valley Unified, Redlands Unified or Riverside Unified were laid off, according to officials in each district and the California Teachers Association.
“Thanks to thoughtful planning by the RUSD board and the hard work of our staff and managers, no teachers or staff left the district due to budget cuts,” Riverside Unified spokesperson Liz Pinney-Muglia said in a written statement Friday, May 16. “We were able to place team members from eliminated positions into other open roles.”
Other districts, including Chino Valley Unified, Corona-Norco Unified and San Bernardino City Unified, didn’t send RIF notices this year, officials there said.
