Education
Jun. 12, 2010
Riffing Our Children's Future
Disproportionate teacher layoffs in the L.A. Unified School District tells kids they are expendable and lack the same value as other students in the district, writes Hernán Vera of Public Counsel.
Concepciona Manuel-Flores, an extremely bright and hardworking seventh grader at Markham Middle School in Watts, shared an impressive distinction with many readers of the Daily Journal - a straight-A grade point average. California's dysfunctional system of allocating teacher layoffs took that, and her education itself, away from her.
Last year, in the wake of the draconian cuts to education statewide, the Los An...
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