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L.A. schools Supt. Cortines reiterates vow to strengthen teacher evaluations
- 01-14-2010
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Blog by Beth Shuster and Jason Song/L.A. Now Los Angeles Times
Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, meeting this afternoon with Times editors and reporters, repeated his vow to strengthen the Los Angeles Unified School District's teacher evaluation system and get rid of ineffective instructors before they are granted tenure. Some teachers were given tenure and "we never wrote them up and we knew there were issues the first and second week they were a teacher," he said. He also criticized state law mandating that permanent status, which comes with numerous job protections, be granted to teachers after two years unless administrators oppose it. He said that time span is too short, especially when it is far longer for university professors. Cortines' statements mirror ones he made late last month when he acknowledged that the district has often done an ineffective job in evaluating instructors and ordered principals and other administrators to spend more time conducting evaluations. (more...)
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