Consultants’ Big Bucks Could Go to Teachers

Re “District’s Freelance Fees Cited in Audit,” April 23: For years the L.A. Unified School District has had a racket going on with “outside consultants,” paying them hundreds of dollars an hour for performing poorly defined jobs. At the same time, teachers seeking pay raises have been told that the district’s coffers are bare.

Here’s a bold plan that will encourage qualified individuals to enter teaching, while ending the teacher ritual of begging for money for their students and themselves. LAUSD teachers should resign on June 30 and let the LAUSD hire them back on July 1 as consultants. Teachers then will be able to provide for their families. And they will finally earn the respect of downtown administrators, who have a high regard only for those who make more money than they do.

Ed LeVine

Teacher

Chatsworth High School