4LAKids - TEACHERS FROM LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS FACE STIGMA ON JOB SEARCH

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: TEACHERS FROM LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS FACE STIGMA ON JOB SEARCH: L.A. Unified staffers say they're often judged by their old school's failings.

TEACHERS FROM LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS FACE STIGMA ON JOB SEARCH: L.A. Unified staffers say they're often judged by their old school's failings.

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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/q2Roa5 July 8, 2011 - In a bizarre game of musical chairs, nearly 1,000 Los Angeles teachers — who are guaranteed jobs somewhere in the school system — have been hunting for a school that wants them. And hundreds of them have to counter a stigma that they are undesirable castoffs, because they previously worked at low-performing schools that are

TURMOIL ROCKS SOUTH L.A. SCHOOL NAMED FOR OBAMA + smf’s 1¢

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Bottom Line By BETTY PLEASANT, Contributing Editor, Los Angeles Wave |http://bit.ly/qD5dH4 July 6, 2011 - There was a time when teachers and the public school system were next to God and the church in the population’s admiration and enjoyed the unwavering support of parents and the childless alike. But not anymore. And certainly not in South Los Angeles where the public school system is