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LA Layoffs Hit Inner City Schools

Posted by Catherine Cullen on Jun 15, 2009 9:09:49 AM

US News shows that seniority-based layoffs are hitting inner city schools in Los Angeles especially hard, since new teachers are concentrated in the worst neighborhoods.

 

This provokes and interesting policy problem. If system-wide layoffs are concentrated (because of seniority rules) in a few schools, how are the remaining teachers redistributed to fill the resulting gaps?

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