MAYOR SAYS TEACHERS SHOULD EARN TENURE IN FOUR YEARS – NOT TWO
BY JASON SONG _ LA TIMES/LA NOW --HTTP://LAT.MS/K56QJ6
Photo: John Deasy, left, and Antonio Villaraigosa at a news conference on Jan. 11. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles TImes
May 19, 2011 | 4:22 pm -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a speech in Sacramento on Thursday, called for doubling the amount of time it takes for teachers to earn tenure, linking students’ test scores to teachers’ evaluations and ending layoffs based strictly on seniority.
Villaraigosa has made similar remarks, but his speech at a teacher evaluation conference hosted by the Education Trust-West had new details of what he wants to include in teachers’ evaluations and how he wants to change tenure.
Evaluations, which are based almost entirely on subjective measurements, should include students’ test data, including how well they have performed on standardized