Seniority Rules and Equal Rights in LA's Public Schools

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DATE : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:00:00 EDT
Entered in Database : 2010-10-08 02:00:00
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State law requires that, when teachers are laid off in order to cut costs, the last hired must be the first fired. But LA's elected school board has reached an agreement to modify that on the grounds that the seniority rule deprives students in high-poverty areas of their constitutional rights. Will a judge sign the deal? Will the teachers union go along? What happens to schools that are not in deprived neighborhoods? We hear from the school board, the union and the ACLU. On our rebroadcast ofTo the Point, the bank bailout is over but the fallout continues.

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