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LAUSD board OKs district plan
- 09-15-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Unified school board members on Tuesday unanimously approved the district's negotiating proposals for unions representing local teachers and administrators. The move is the initial step in a process that could ultimately overhaul the way teachers are evaluated, hired and fired. District officials want United Teachers Los Angeles and the Associated Administrators to agree to the use of student data in employee evaluations, which they also intend to use to guide hiring and firing at LAUSD. Despite union opposition, the district also wants to begin using the controversial "value-added" method of analyzing test scores in teacher and principal evaluations. (more…)
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