The LA Weekly has a long article describing the ridiculous hoops that administrators at the Los Angeles Unified School District (the school district I currently reside in) have to jump through to fire incompetent teachers.
The most distressing revelations, to my mind, are that teachers in the district receive tenure after only two years on the job, and that the district has attempted to fire only seven out of more than 30,000 teachers for poor performance over the past ten years.
Is it a surprise that just over half of students in LAUSD high-schools graduate after four years? Not really. Is it an outrage? It should be.
Read the whole depressing thing, which should really be coming from the LA Times.
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