Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In L.A. the least experienced teachers are being placed with the neediest kids

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In L.A. the least experienced teachers are being placed with the neediest kids:

In L.A. the least experienced teachers are being placed with the neediest kids

by Mike Klonsky

A new Harvard study shows the so-called "achievement gap" growing wider in L.A. as the neediest of the district's students are taught by the least experienced teachers. Under Supt. John Deasy's control,  LAUSD has increased its reliance on extended substitutes and TFA five-week wonders as an austerity measure and a way of undermining the union contract. First-year teachers are assigned to students who begin the year academically behind students assigned to more experienced teachers.

According to the L.A. Times:

No single finding can produce a strategy to erase the district’s substantial achievement gap between white