Take a look at what's going on with colleagues in Nevada. Their problems and concerns sound a lot like the one you see on ETNI Teacher Talk Nevada http://www.teachertalknv.org/ - Teachers agree: It's hard to get dead wood out of the schools - Teachers and Unions Fight Over Who Controls the Classroom - The debate on teacher performance pay - [A good idea] administrators spending a little time teaching. Also see: Students March to Protest Teacher Layoffs About 350 students from the Santee Education Complex marched three miles this morning to the downtown headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The students were protesting looming teachers layoffs adopted to balance a $596.1-million hole in the district’s budget for next year. The projected deficit grew as much as $400 million this week in the wake of further declines in state revenue and the voters’ defeat of ballot measures that would have raised revenue to cover part of the deficit. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/education/index.html ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------