A number of Stockton schools will also lose teachers over the next few months.

City schools have been losing teachers to suburbs paying thousands of dollars more.

"We cannot continue to lose good teachers to the suburbs."

The school district was losing teachers about as fast as they could be hired.

"Nor may our schools and children afford to lose certified teachers from their classrooms during the current teacher shortage."

In the long years of fighting we had already lost many students and teachers.

It could lead to more standardized testing and cause low-income areas to lose teachers.

Keep a lid on city labor costs, but don't lose teachers or police officers to the suburbs.

Because of this, he said, "we had lost teachers who could get a better deal elsewhere."

Enrollment plummeted as students lost teachers with whom they had grown up.