GATES-FUNDED STUDY VALIDATES GATES, VILLARAIGOSA AGENDA: Another study politicizes the data [The LAT+DN articles + the gushing press release + smf’s 2¢ + the study itself]
Report says L.A. principals should have more authority in hiring teachers
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa strongly backs suggestions in the report, whose research was paid for largely with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
BY HOWARD BLUME, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/LV6JBY
A. J. Duffy, United Teachers Los Angeles president, rallies teachers, parents and students filling Pershing Square to protest budget cuts. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / May 13, 2011)
June 7, 2011, 12:01 a.m - School principals should be able to hire any teacher of their choosing, and displaced tenured teachers who aren't rehired elsewhere within the system should be permanently dismissed, according to a controversial new report on the Los Angeles Unified School District. The report will be presented Tuesday to the Board of Education.
The research, paid for largely by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offers a roadmap for improving the quality