About 1,600 Los Angeles Unified School District administrators – but no teachers – will receive layoff notices by Wednesday, the district confirmed Tuesday.

By state law, school districts have to tell certificated employees by March 15 if there is a possibility they could be laid off for the next school year, said Barbara Jones of the district’s communications office.

The LAUSD Board of Education took the action at its Feb. 14 meeting to send the notices to all certificated contract level management and senior management employees of the classified service with expiring contracts, as well as all non-school based administrators in specified positions, telling them they could be released or reassigned for the coming school year.

These employees might not lose their jobs, however, Jones said. Last year, the school district rescinded notices it sent to 1,700 administrators after the state released its budget. “We hope to be able to do that again this year,” Jones said.

Juan Flecha, president of the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, pushed back against the layoff notices, addressing board members at the LAUSD board meeting Tuesday. The association represents middle managers in the school district.

“The district’s fiscal stabilization plan is having a destabilizing effect on the central and local district administrators AALA represents,” Flecha said. “The district’s trend has been to add the additional responsibilities of RIFd (reduced in force) administrators to those left behind, making their already unmanageable workloads even more difficult,” Flecha said.

Flecha was referring to the district’s long-term stabilization plan it adopted last June to shore up future budget shortfalls.