Litigation
Nov. 16, 2013
Plaintiffs show strategy in closely watched education suit
In court papers filed this week, plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging employment rules make it too hard to fire bad teachers detailed what they see as constitutional violations to students' education.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Firing a public school teacher accused of inappropriately touching students took 10 years and cost Los Angeles Unified School District $1.6 million. For California's public schools, it regularly takes years and hundreds of thousands of dollars or more to dismiss bad teachers. And the hatchet rarely falls: In the past decade, the L.A. district fired only 11 teachers from a staff of 36,000.
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