Performance-based teacher layoff bill dies in committee

05-12-2011

By Jason Song/Los Angeles Times

Legislation that would have allowed school districts to lay off teachers based on performance, not seniority, failed in a state Senate education committee Wednesday. The measure, proposed by state Sen. Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), called for school districts to create new administrator and teacher evaluations that would be partially based on student test score data. It would have allowed district officials to lay off teachers based on performance. Currently, by state law, teachers are laid off strictly by seniority during budget shortfalls. Three Republican senators supported the bill in a committee hearing, falling short of the six votes needed to proceed to the full Senate. This is the second straight year that the bill has failed, and earlier attempts to do away with seniority-based layoffs also proved unsuccessful. (more...)

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