L.A. public school system wastes $500 million on pointless training, report says

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The Los Angeles Unified School District squanders more than $500 million a year on an academic-improvement strategy that has consistently proven to be ineffective, researchers concluded in a report released Tuesday.

The nation’s second-largest school system spends 25% of its teacher payroll ($519 million a year) to compensate teachers for completing graduate coursework. These courses are a primary means by which teachers earn credits that translate to raises.

Yet such training has shown no overall benefit in improving student performance, said Kate Walsh, president of the Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality, which conducted the research.

The money would be better spent paying more to teachers who deliver results, such as higher test scores, or to attract proven talent to the system, said Walsh in a presentation at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/la-school-system-spends-more-than-500-million-on-pointless-training-report-concludes.html

You got that, paying people who go to college more is a waste of money.

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1. What do they squander on practice test materials.

My district squanders thousands.

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2. most trainings I went to were mostly useless, coulda been put on a handout lol nt