Teacher seniority, layoffs, and the poor children of Watts
by Scott McLeod
"These layoffs are wrong, and these layoffs are toxic to children," ACLU lawyer Mark Rosenbaum said.
The organization has filed a lawsuit alleging that the teacher layoffs constitute a violation of the constitutional rights of inner city students to an education.
Attorney Catherine Lhaman, who also is working on the lawsuit, said, "There is something profoundly wrong when children in some schools lose two-thirds of their teachers while children in other schools get to keep all their teachers and continue learning in a stable educational environment."
