The court determined what educators everywhere already know:
Disproportionate teacher layoffs have a dramatically negative effect on the way kids learn.
The lawsuit targeted the devastating impact of massive and
disproportionate teacher layoffs on students» right to equal educational opportunity under the California Constitution.
Not exact matches
Confirming the
disproportionate impact of current RIF systems on new
teachers, the study finds that approximately 60 percent of
teachers receiving
layoff notices in 2008 - 10 had two or fewer years of experience, and approximately 80 percent had two or fewer years of seniority within their current district.
The
Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based
Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that
teachers at risk of
layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...
This report analyzes the impact of massive seniority - based
layoffs»
disproportionate effect on newer
teachers in poorer, high - minority communities.
Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as
teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the
disproportionate impact of
teacher layoff at their schools.
At the urging of Mayor Villaraigosa and his Partnership for Los Angeles School, the ACLU and Public Counsel filed a lawsuit (Reed v. Smith) on behalf of Gompers, Liechty, and Markham Middle Schools arguing that the children's constitutional right to a quality education was being violated due to the
disproportionate impact of
teacher layoffs at those schools.
The number was so high because inner - city schools like ours tend to have a
disproportionate share of
teachers just starting their careers, and in last year's
layoffs, the most recently hired were the first to receive pink slips.
There has been ongoing litigation about the
disproportionate impact of
teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their
teachers if
layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.