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California teacher layoffs hit poor performing schools hard
- 07-06-2010
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By Diana Lambert and Phillip Reese/Sacramento Bee
A year of sweeping teacher layoffs at schools around the state has exposed a stark reality for California's lowest-performing schools: The schools with the lowest test scores – and traditionally the highest numbers of poor and minority students – tend to be staffed with the least experienced teachers. Because California law requires that, in a time of layoffs, teachers with least experience in a district are the first to go, this past year of budget slashing has hit the staffs of low-performing schools disproportionately hard. (more...)
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