The Los Angeles Times (6/8, Blume) reports that according to a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality, "principals should be able to hire any teacher of their choosing, and displaced tenured teachers who aren't rehired elsewhere within the system should be permanently dismissed, according to a controversial new report on the Los Angeles Unified School District." The Times adds that the report "offers a roadmap for improving the quality of teaching in the nation's second-largest school system, with recommendations strongly backed by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa."
The Los Angeles Daily Breeze (6/8, Llanos) adds that the report "urges Los Angeles Unified to implement changes that would toughen evaluations and empower the district to retain good educators and fire ineffective ones" and "focuses on ways to help LAUSD improve the quality of its teaching pool. ... The authors, who surveyed some 1,500 teachers and principals, recommend changes to the current union contract and to state laws regulating staffing, evaluations, tenure, compensation and work schedules."
Noting that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partially paid for the study, the Los Angeles Business Journal (6/8, Subscription Publication) reports that it says that LAUSD's "policies on teacher hiring, compensation, tenure and evaluations don't work and need to be modified with help from state laws." The report "compared the LAUSD's policies with other districts in the state and nationwide and identified district and legislative reforms that it said would help schools attract and retain good teachers. Among the policies the study decries is the current process of teacher layoffs," which "should be determined by multiple factors, including teacher effectiveness."
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