Neediest schools should be able to keep their best teachers

04-21-2010

Opinion by Arun Ramanathan/San Jose Mercury News

Last month, school districts around California issued layoff notices to 30,000 teachers because of the state budget crisis. It is deplorable that our state has forced the education system to take a disproportionate share of our state's budget cuts over the past three years, forcing this annual layoff process. But what's just as unfortunate is the way that these layoffs are implemented. Instead of keeping the best teachers and laying off those who are least effective, districts were forced to let the newer teachers go first, regardless of how well they did their jobs. In January, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to change the outdated state law that prevents schools from considering anything other than how long a teacher has worked in the school system in the layoff process. (more...)

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