Posted on 07/06/2006 7:59:11 AM PDT by george76
Frustrated teachers and administrators are being lured by independent schools with the promise of more support and freedom.
Amid the continuing growth of charter schools in Los Angeles, hundreds of teachers and administrators have left the city's school system to take jobs at the independently run campuses.
In the latest wave of departures, dozens of frustrated Los Angeles Unified School District staffers have been courted away by Green Dot Public Schools — one of the city's leading charter operators.
Others who are choosing to leave the district for Green Dot or other charters echo Funes' concerns.
Working within the nation's second-largest school district, with its slow pace of reforms and convoluted layers of authority, they say, has left them disillusioned.
Instead, they have turned to the more intimate, freewheeling atmosphere of charters, which are publicly funded but free to innovate and are outside of many of the laws governing public education.
The exodus to Green Dot has infused new tension in the increasingly heated debate over charters in L.A. Unified.
The controversy centers on whether charters offer a better education than district schools, and their financial toll as state funds follow students from district schools to charters.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Won't be long until the state usurps these schools and takes control...no way the government allows this to continue...their may be an entire generation of kids with clear minds and good educations...can't have that!
Unions obliterate incentive, motivation, success.
Charter schools, or vounchers, would bring competition back into our school systems and provide higher performance for less money. The good teachers would get more money, and the poor teachers would be fired.
As it is now, like a socialist utopian society, all teachers get the same pay for the number of years served and cannot be fired.
As for myself, I have never been a member of the NEA but I do hold membership in a conservative organization -- The American Assocation of Educators. In my school there are many more members of the AAE than any other organization. The AAE is a bargain and I don't have to be concerned with my money going towards a political agenda.
Not for the union leaders.
Frustrated teachers and administrators are being lured by independent schools with the promise of more support and freedom.
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It is about time that what professional, caring, competent teachers there are, that they rid themselves of the pestilence of the unions and the pro-liberal destructive scenario they represent.
Good News.
...Villaraigosa might be better off studying the Constitution (or Bar Exam) before attempting to improve the schools.
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Welcome to Northern Mexico -- his only care is figuring out the best way to graduate ILLEGALS who cannot read or write or speak English...
spot on!
It is good news.
There are many good, caring, knowledgeable...teachers.
It would be best to free some of them to teach.
ping!
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