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Teacher layoffs would hit schools with students of color, low-income hardest
UCLA Today - April 22, 2009
By John Rogers
Rogers is associate professor of education and director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA), a research institute seeking to understand and challenge pervasive racial and social class inequalities in education. This piece appeared originally in UCLA/IDEA.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has issued more than 8,500 “pink slips” informing employees that their contracts may not be renewed at the end of the current school year. If past practice holds, and in accordance with rules set up in the California Education Code and the district’s collective bargaining agreement, the district will use teacher seniority as the primary criteria for determining which teachers are dismissed. That is, the first teachers dismissed will be those with one or two years of experience.
New teachers are not distributed equally across LAUSD’s schools. Because of this mal-distribution, some schools will bear the brunt of the proposed layoffs.
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