By Jim Sanders
Months after a Los Angeles judge ruled that California’s largest school district was violating state law by failing to use student test scores in evaluating teachers, lawmakers are scrambling to rewrite the rules.
The battle royal pits teachers against school administrators and school boards in fierce lobbying rocking the Capitol in the final days of a legislative session set to adjourn for the year Friday.
The hottest issue is a push to grant teachers the right to collectively bargain all aspects of any evaluation system.