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Steinberg bill on teacher layoffs in jeopardy
- 08-30-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A bill that would end the disparity in teacher layoffs in low-income, low-performing schools and resolve a lawsuit against the state and Los Angeles Unified is stuck in an Assembly committee with two days left to act on legislation. SB 1285 is a priority of Senate pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, its sponsor. The stalemate puts him at odds with Assembly Speaker John Perez, who controls which bills exit the Rules Committee. The outcome will be a gauge of Perez’s loyalty to the California Teachers Association, which opposes the bill as an infringement of seniority-based layoffs. The bill would require that the percentage of teacher layoffs in schools in the lowest three deciles on API scores – about the worst third of schools – be no higher than the average for all schools in their districts. That’s not the way it has been in many urban schools, where the last-in, first-out layoff rules, as generally required under teachers contracts and state law, have created a churn of young, less experienced teachers in low-performing schools. (more…)
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