History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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LAUSD moving forward with new contract, value-added teacher evaluations
- 12-16-2011
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By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC
Los Angeles Unified’s teachers’ union announced Thursday that its members have overwhelmingly approved a contract with the school district that will grant individual campuses more control over the way they operate. The Board of Education now gets to vote on it. Teachers this week considered the changes. The top leaders of the teachers union and the school district negotiated the changes. LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy stumped for the reforms last week on the school district’s TV station. The changes will be in place for three years. They include a moratorium on the practice of forcing all employees of a low-performing campus to re-apply for their jobs. The reforms also block charter school operators from taking over new or low-performing schools through a 2-year-old program known as Public School Choice (more...)
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