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Take teacher layoff battle to Sacramento
- 03-14-2011
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Column by Steve Lopez/Los Angeles Times
I bumped into my daughter's former teacher the other day, and she told me that after surviving several layoff threats, this time will probably be different. She's relatively low in seniority and expects to lose her job. I felt helpless, and angry, too, knowing how great a teacher she is. How many others will we lose? It is the season of horror stories in public education, as budget battles play out in Sacramento. How do you measure the losses for students when their teachers get dumped, class sizes grow and continuity is sacrificed on one campus after another? (more...)
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