is improve the quality of teachers? improve the education for the students? yes. and stabilize it. that is part of the biggest issue is we are not able to stabilize as these rifts pull teachers away that want to be at our school sites. so, duffy, when you go just by seniority, don t you sometimes cut off your nose to spite your face? you have a lot of great young educators out there being cut out of job force. and we have a lot of mid career and veteran educators that do a fabulous job. this is actually a false issue and it s false because seniority was never the primary way used to determine who would stay at a school site. i want to point out this crisis was manufactured by the school district. in los angeles we had several years ago what s called the rodriguez consent decree.
the rodriguez consent decree required that every school have a mix of new, mid career, and veteran teachers. the district went to the court and got rid of it. i want to read bulletin 2574.0 dated june 5th, 2006. while the district has prevailed, it is important to continue to maintain the established policies and procedures used to ensure that a school density guidelines are kept and that the highly qualified and experienced teachers are equitably distributed amongst the schools, the district did not follow their own guidelines. they created this situation. duffy, here is my question. when you have to layoff teachers how do you go about doing it? you look at seniority. you also look at qualifications.