Villaraigosa to focus on education in his State of the City address

04-13-2011

By Maeve Reston and Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times

In his sixth State of the City address Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will turn his sights to education and call for throwing out the telephone-book sized teachers contract as a fundamental strategy for reforming the state's largest public school system. The result, he argues, will be more freedom for teachers, higher pay for the best ones and a better education for students who are not well served. Villaraigosa's focus on struggling schools comes as city officials are wrestling with a deficit of at least $350 million and trying to keep services flowing even after deep budget cuts. In tackling school reform during his final two years in office, he returns to an issue that he embraced as a mayoral candidate, when he vowed to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District — a battle for direct control that he lost. (more...)

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