January 26, 2010
Louisiana
By WILL SENTELL @ The Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Major changes for some public schoolteachers could begin later this year and be operating in East Baton Rouge Parish and 27 other districts by 2012, state officials said Monday.
The new rules would include:
Linking teacher pay, promotion and retention to student performance.
Requiring ineffective teachers to get professional assistance, or face [...]
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January 21, 2010
Louisiana
By JORDAN BLUM
Graduation rates and LSU’s academic accreditation are gravely at risk because of higher education budget cuts and pending layoffs, professors said Wednesday during the university’s first Faculty Senate meeting of the year.
LSU is sending out more than 300 notices this week to instructors informing them they may not have jobs after 2010.
Other notices to [...]
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