By Patric Hedlund with Gary Meyer —Do you hear the ticking? That is the clock El Tejon Teachers’ Association (ETTA) union leader Chuck Mullen is watching. He is a history teacher at El Tejon School, but it often appears his first love is coaching basketball. Mullen knows how to play out the clock.

March 15 is the date that matters, because California’s education code requires that any layoff notices to the teachers must be in their hands by…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Teacher Susan Bates (right) made a strong statement about the impact of layoffs on teachers. But former trustee Anita Anderson (left) knows the big picture includes the state’s ‘catch-22’ March 15 ‘pinks’ deadline pushed into California law in 1976 by the unions themselves.

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