LAUSD fired 56 tenured teachers in 2010-11 school year

Connie Lianos:

Los Angeles Unified fired 56 tenured teachers in the 2010-11 school year - more than four times the number terminated the previous year.

The information was learned by the Daily News, a sister newspaper of the Daily Breeze.

The increase over the 13 teachers fired in 2009-10 represents a policy shift for the district as it tries to improve the quality of teaching, despite state rules that can make the dismissal process lengthy and difficult.

A total of 758 teachers - those with tenure and without - as well as substitutes and administrators were fired last year and 105 more resigned to avoid dismissal, according to a district memo.

Among those fired for poor performance were 136 nonpermanent educators - those with less than two years' experience - and 312 substitute teachers.

The total represents less than 3 percent of the district's workforce of 30,000 teachers, but it's a significant increase from the number of terminations made in previous years.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 7, 2011 1:48 AM
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