History of IDEA
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Big choices for LA teachers
- 12-02-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Teachers and principals in the state’s largest school district will be able to free themselves from a range of district policies and restrictions of the union contract – if they choose to. In a break from their ongoing battle over teacher evaluations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy and United Teachers Los Angeles President Warren Fletcher announced a tentative landmark deal deal this week giving great flexibility over working conditions and educational decisions rules to teachers at individual school sites where a supermajority (60 percent) approves. The district has been pushing teachers to adopt a “thin” union contract in the hope that, liberated to make their own decisions, teachers will take the lead on school transformation. (more...)
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