'Why isn't that happening here?'

03-21-2011

By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

Class sizes will balloon all over the city if San Diego Unified goes ahead with plans to slash one out of every six teachers. But the blizzard of pink slips is hitting some of its poorest schools the hardest because the newest teachers are the first to lose their jobs — a phenomenon dubbed "last-in-first-out." That has happened over and over in San Diego. Yet just two hours to the north in Los Angeles, the practice is being curbed. Civil rights groups sued Los Angeles Unified and came to an unusual settlement: Schools with high turnover and low but growing scores will be spared when it hands out pink slips. That means that more senior teachers at less troubled schools will go onto the chopping block instead, upsetting the seniority-based system that drives layoffs at most public schools. San Diego Unified hasn't followed the lead from Los Angeles, at least not yet. (more...)

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