Board balks at firing shift.The Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board balked Tuesday at trying to change state law to make it easier to fire teachers, instead appointing a committee to study the issue. Attempting to streamline the lengthy process to get rid of bad teachers would likely have sparked an intense battle with powerful teachers unions. The vote came as hundreds of teachers, students and parents marched around the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or to protest pending teacher layoffs. A3 CAPTION(S): Photo: (color) LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) teachers protest in front of the Citibank branc h at Van Nuys and Vanowen on Tuesday. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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