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The Long Beach Community College District agreed to pay $18 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by adjunct professors, EdSource <\/em>reported. The lawsuit argued part-time professors in the district weren\u2019t compensated for hours of work outside the classroom, including grading assignments, preparing lessons and meeting with students.<\/p>\n \u201cResolving this matter allows the District to avoid prolonged litigation and manage risk responsibly, consistent with standard practices across public higher education,\u201d Stacey Toda, a spokesperson for the district, wrote in a statement to The Long Beach Post.<\/em><\/p>\n Although the district board agreed to the settlement last month, the deal still needs approval from Judge Stuart Rice, who\u2019s overseeing the case. A hearing is scheduled for July. But Rice seems likely to sign off. He ruled last year that adjuncts should receive pay for their work outside class and that there was a \u201cmyriad of problems\u201d with the district\u2019s argument to the contrary. But he stayed the decision pending further proceedings, so it didn\u2019t take immediate effect.<\/p>\n Eileen B. Goldsmith, the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyer, wrote in a court filing that the proposed settlement would result in 1,456 adjuncts receiving more than $11,000 each. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Long Beach Community College District agreed to pay $18 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by adjunct professors, EdSource reported. The lawsuit argued part-time professors in the district weren\u2019t compensated for hours of work outside the classroom, including grading assignments, preparing lessons and meeting with students. \u201cResolving this matter allows the District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23448,535,534,9933,2571],"class_list":{"0":"post-45577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-adjuncts","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-district","12":"tag-settles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}