4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Here they go again: L.A. TIMES SUES LAUSD FOR INFO ON TEACHERS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Here they go again: L.A. TIMES SUES LAUSD FOR INFO ON TEACHERS:

Here they go again: L.A. TIMES SUES LAUSD FOR INFO ON TEACHERS

smf’s 2¢: The Times’ previous “Value Addled” efforts have been as close to Abuse-of-Freedom-of-the-Press as it gets!

BY MATT REYNOLDS , COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE | HTTP://BIT.LY/T1YIC4

Thursday, October 18, 2012L | ast Update: 9:04 AM PT | LOS ANGELES (CN)  ::  The Los Angeles Times claims Los Angeles Unified School District is violating public records law by refusing to release records tying teachers, by name, to the expected and actual test scores of their students.
     The Times asked a Superior Court judge to order LAUSD to deliver the records the newspaper requested under California Public Records Act.
     The Times claims it has used school district records to compile an online database of individual teachers' performances by calculating the difference between students' projected and actual test results.
     It claims it used this "'value added' methodology" to rate thousands of city school teachers.
     Last year, the school district announced its own school rating system, using a value-added system called Academic Growth Over Time (AGT)