[lg policy] New CRPE report--The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students

[Harold Schiffman]

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UC Santa Barbara    The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs
on Poor, Minority Students
By *Cristina Sepe, Marguerite Roza*

K-12 school districts that lay off teachers by seniority, a policy known as
“last in, first out,” disproportionately affect the programs and students in
their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less
minority counterparts.
Looking at the 15 largest districts in California, researchers at the Center
on Reinventing Public Education found that teachers at risk of layoffs are
indeed concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students.

In these districts, if seniority-based layoffs are applied for teachers with
up to two years’ experience, highest-poverty schools would lose some 30
percent more teachers than wealthier schools, and highest-minority schools
would lose 60 percent more teachers than would schools with the fewest
minority students.

The analysis concludes: “Where districts seek to minimize the effects of
budget reduction policies on students . . . it is clear that the
disproportionate impact of seniority-based layoffs on high-poverty and
high-minority schools must be considered.”


More>> <http://www.crpe.org/cs/crpe/view/csr_pubs/340>





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