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LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines

Will LAUSD Ever Adopt Merit Pay For Teachers?

Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public school system, won a major battle over performance-based pay the other day, which now ties teachers' salaries to classroom results not seniority and improves teacher evaluations. That news coming out of the nation's capital makes us wonder what kind of progress......

When Those Who Can't Teach, Do

We give it all up this week to Beth Barrett's cover story ("LAUSD’s Dance of the Lemons," Feb. 11) on the LAUSD's inability to deal effectively with its ineffective teachers, or those it accuses of being ineffective. Either way, it's a huge issue in Los Angeles, and not surprisingly hit......