education cuts forces about 16,000 teachers were cut out last year. 26,000 got pink slips this year. a.j. duffy is the president of united teachers of los angeles and tim sullivan is principal of edward markham middle school where governor schwarzenegger appeared in support of this bill. a good day to both of you. thank you. good afternoon. okay. tim, want to get to what s happening at the middle school because your school lost more than half of its teachers in layoff last year. many were new hires. what would this bill do to help you out? it helps us stabilize our teaching staff and interview teachers that want to come to markham that have a passion for our students. right now we re destined to lose more teachers and this will continue unless we look at something different. what you re trying to do tim