Settlement limits L.A. teachers' seniority protection

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Marshall Tuck, chief executive of Partnership for L.A. Schools, smiles as ACLU Chief Counsel Mark D. Rosenbaum, at lectern, announces the settlement with L.A. Unified over the role of seniority in teacher layoffs. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / October 5, 2010)

By Jason Song, Howard Blume and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times
October 6, 2010


The Los Angeles Board of Education approved Tuesday what would be a landmark court settlement that radically limits the traditional practice of laying off teachers strictly on the basis of seniority. The agreement would cap the number of those dismissals at virtually all schools in the nation's second-largest district.

The pact, approved unanimously after a two-hour closed session, also would spare up to 45 struggling schools from layoffs. Many of those schools have disruptive turnover rates among teachers.

The proposed settlement requires approval by a judge. It comes in response to a lawsuit filed in February by several legal groups, including the ACLU, which accused the state and Los Angeles Unified School District of denying students equal access to a public education.


It lays out one of the most sweeping reforms to teacher layoffs in the nation's school districts, which generally follow a "last hired, first fired" approach.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lausd-20101006,0,375697.story

[Reader Rabbit]

1. This angers me.

Can anyone tell me what industries don't follow the "last hired, first fired" standard when it comes to a Reduction in Force (RIF)?

[Hannah Bell]

2. i think that guy is a lizard-person. jeez he's creepy-looking.

teachers better get their shit together this year or they don't have many years left. i'm serious.

[nofear]

3. Los Angeles

UTLA has been ineffective in stopping anything. I don't know what they are doing.

[Hannah Bell]

5. utla = aft, the "powerful teachers union" led by the collaborationist randi weingarten.

[Hannah Bell]

4. The "powerful teachers union" lays down for the privatizers again.

you'd think the members would get a clue at some point.

Senior teachers, unless you're suck-ups, your jobs are officially in the bullseye.

Step one in eliminating the principles of seniority & tenure altogether.

They're doing it just like they did in the auto industry.

Divide & conquer, divide & conquer.

[nofear]

6. UTLA

Trust me, we got the clue.