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Great Teachers forEvery Child:
  A Matter ofSocial Justice
RESEARCH BRIEF
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MAY 2012
 
Overview
“Great Teachers for Every Child: A Matter of Social Justice,” 
 
synthesizes research and analysis of California’s schools, and reveals importantinsights on how the state’s bureaucratic seniority-based layoff policydisproportionately impacts low-income and minority communities, particularlyAfrican-Americans and Latinos. The brief also addresses the impact of thestate budget crisis on teacher layoffs under California’s seniority-based policy.
Every Child Deserves A Great Teacher
The research is clear that teacher quality is the most important in-school factorimpacting student achievement.
 
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A highly effective teacher generates an estimated 50 percent more learning than an average teacher. 
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The impact of effective teachers goes far beyond the classroom. Students of effective teachersare more likely to attend college, attend higher-ranked colleges, earn higher salaries, live in betterneighborhoods, and have lower rates of teen pregnancy.
A Matter of Educational Equity and Social Justice
Given the stark reality of the impact of California’s policy, ending seniority-basedlayoffs is a social justice imperative.
 
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Seniority-based layoffs do nothing to protect effective teachers and cause more classrooms to bedisrupted by budget cuts, meaning more students lose more great teachers. 
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Low-income children of color are disproportionately impacted because they are more likely to attendschools employing teachers subject to layoffs. 
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Under the current system, the state’s schools serving the: 
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Highest-poverty populations would lose close to 30 percent more teachers than wealthiercounterparts. 
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Highest-minority populations would lose 60 percent more teachers than those schools servingthe lowest-minority populations.
California is one of only 11 states that mandates seniority-based teacher layoffs,
which aggravate the impact of California’s budget decit on teachers and students in
low-income, high-minority schools.The time has come to reform ineffective policies like California’s seniority-based layoff
system, and to put students rst.
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