{"id":18432,"date":"2011-01-25T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=18432"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:54:02","slug":"public-schools-last-fired-first-fired-policy-struck-a-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/01\/25\/public-schools-last-fired-first-fired-policy-struck-a-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Schools&#8217; Last-Fired, First-Fired Policy Struck a Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-012511\/2011_01_25_blume.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-012511\/2011_01_25_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8bfS3JC_VDEIO7XM-V7U_ovy7tVVXa4rMsuU1o64ERDPvdKCw&#038;t=1\" alt=\"LAUSD\" \/>An LA Superior Judge ruled last Friday that the LA Unified School District can no longer universally apply a &#8220;last hired, first fired&#8221; layoff policy. The decision marked the end of a closely watched lawsuit that may have national implications. The American Civil Liberties Union led a legal team that brought the suit against the State, arguing that seniority based firing was disproportionately detrimental to inner-city schools. These schools tend to have high staff turnover, and newly hired teachers are more likely to fill vacant spaces than veteran educators. A last-hired, first-fired layoff policy leads to the brunt of layoffs taking place within the small group of hard-to-staff LA schools. The ACLU said the rights of the students of these schools to a quality education was being violated by this policy.  Some LAUSD schools lost 50% of their teachers to layoffs; many of these teachers had requested to be placed in urban schools and they were effective in the environment. As a result of the lawsuit some schools will see no layoffs for one year and district wide layoffs must be spread equitably between schools. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Howard Blume, LA Times reporter and co-host with Barbara Osborn of Deadline LA heard on KPFK Fridays at 3:30 pm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An LA Superior Judge ruled last Friday that the LA Unified School District can no longer universally apply a &#8220;last hired, first fired&#8221; layoff policy. The decision marked the end of a closely watched lawsuit that may have national implications. The American Civil Liberties Union led a legal team that brought the suit against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}