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Evaluation
- In the 2009-2010 school year, LAUSD evaluated only 40 percent of tenured teachers and 70 percent of nontenured teachers
- Teachers are formally observed only once every other year, per California state law
- 97.6 percent of evaluated teachers met expectations in the 2009-2010 school year
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Staffing
- Teachers are laid off by seniority status rather than performance
- Principals are sometimes forced to hire teachers they did not select
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Compensation
- LAUSD spends 25 percent of its payroll ($519 million a year) to compensate teachers for graduate coursework
- It takes teachers roughly 30 years and excessive amounts of coursework to reach the top of their pay scale
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Work Schedule
- LAUSD requires an 8 hour work day, but not necessarily on-site, minimizing the available time for collaboration between educators
- LAUSD students receive among the lowest number of instructional days in the nation
- Teachers accumulate an appropriate amount of leave - 10 sick days per year
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Tenure
- LAUSD has initiated a cultural shift by making the tenure decision more deliberate, in practice
- California law requires the tenure decision to be made after only two years of teaching, a shorter period than 40 other states
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