LA Times - "L.A. Unified can keep teacher ratings anonymous, judges say"

[TomCADem]

This is just more evidence that rather than expose the corruption and influence of their big business corporate sponsors, media outlets focus their "investigations" on individuals. Here, after creating a database of individual public employee names and salaries, the LA Times has been seeking production and disclosure of individual teacher names and performance evaluations. You only wish that the media would put the same amount of effort into exposing the misdeeds of the 1 percent. Instead, lets put the salaries and employee evaluations of the 99 percent on the internet.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-teacher-ratings-20140424,0,4176016.story#axzz303CjSwu0

The Los Angeles Unified School District does not need to release the names of teachers in connection with their performance ratings, according to a tentative court ruling issued Thursday.

A three-judge state appellate court panel tentatively found a stronger public interest in keeping the names confidential than publicly releasing them. Disclosure would not serve the public interest in monitoring the district’s performance as much as it would affect the recruitment and retention of good instructors and other issues, the ruling said.

The Times, in suing for access to the names, had argued that parents and others had a strong public interest in learning the performance ratings of identifiable public school teachers under the California Public Records Act.

But the tentative ruling rejected that argument and would overturn a lower court decision last year that ordered the teacher names and ratings be released to the newspaper.