SUSPENDED CHARTER TEACHER CITES STUDENT TEST SCORES IN HIS DEFENSE: A teacher suspended from a Green Dot-run charter high school in Inglewood says his students' scores, and those of a fired colleague, merit consideration.
BY HOWARD BLUME, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/MLPU5G
Mark Friedman protests his suspension from a Green Dot-run charter high school in Inglewood outside Green Dot headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / June 19, 2012)June 20, 2012 :: A teacher at the center of a dispute at a well-known charter school has launched a novel defense to save his job and that of a fired colleague: They're too good to be dismissed based on their students' standardized test scores.
Biology teacher Mark Friedman has been suspended, and history teacher Sonia Del Pino has been dismissed from Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood, which is operated by Green Dot Public Schools.
Friedman was suspended because of allegations by one or two co-workers that he bullied colleagues, negligently supervised students and