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Bill would make big change in WA teachers layoffs - Boston.com

Bill would make big change in WA teachers layoffs - Boston.com

Bill would make big change in WA teachers layoffs

By Donna Gordon Blankinship
Associated Press / January 28, 2011
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SEATTLE—The sponsor of a bill that would make teacher effectiveness the main determining factor during layoffs says the proposal is worth billions of dollars in school improvement. But the president of the state's largest teachers union wonders why lawmakers are spending time on the proposal when they should be focusing on how to avoid teacher layoffs in the first place.

Mary Lindquist of the Washington Education Association said lawmakers started last year to move toward a new teacher evaluation system. About 17 school districts are researching,

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