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Bill would ensure more equitable teacher layoff process
- 06-22-2010
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Editorial/San Jose Mercury News
The state's wave of teacher layoffs is a tragedy, but at low-performing schools, the results could be downright disastrous. Because newer teachers predominate at these schools, and layoffs are based on seniority, students there could lose a majority of their faculty in a single year. That's not just a hypothetical. A judge last month ordered a halt to layoffs at three struggling Los Angeles middle schools where up to three-quarters of teachers had already lost their jobs. The judge said the layoffs violated the students' equal protection rights; districtwide, the layoff rate was 15 percent. State Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is sponsoring a bill to end this kind of unconscionable inequity. (more...)
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