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Address by Jerry Hume
Submitted on 1.30.2003
Report Card for Delaine Eastin
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 1.13.2003
With the recent swearing in of California's newly elected constitutional officers, a number of term-limited politicians have finally been forced off the public stage. One taxpayers won’t miss is former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin who last month said, “we don’t have the courage of heart and spine to raise taxes to educate the children.”
Teacher Seniority and Emergency Credentialed Teachers at Low-Performing Schools
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 1.7.2003
A new study by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning has found that the lowest-performing California high schools, based on state high school exit exam scores, had the highest percentages of uncredentialed teachers. This finding should cause us to ask why so many uncredentialed teachers are concentrated in low achievement, hard-to-staff schools in low-income areas. Much of the answer can be found in teacher union contracts.
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