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Baltimore Education Jobs

Anyone considering a career as a teacher should know that Baltimore education jobs have a lot to offer.

The Baltimore-Towson area's education and health services industry employed 237,100 workers during December 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is up from 237,000 workers during November and a 2.6 percent increase from December 2008.

Educators in the area can expect to be paid relatively well. According to Salary.com, the average pay for a public school teacher in Baltimore is between $45,472 per year and $60,400 per year.

The city's public primary and secondary school system is run by Baltimore City Public Schools, which has long been criticized and cited as the most under-funded school system in the state. BCPSS is currently ranked 21st for overall spending, according to Wikipedia.

Despite the reputation the school system has earned, it still has plenty to offer educators and students. BCPSS is home to Baltimore City College, the third-oldest public high school in the country, and Western High School, the oldest all girl public high school.

The system further boasts Frederick Douglass High School, the second-oldest African American high school in the country. Lake Clifton Eastern High School serves as the largest school in the system, which also is home to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

When it comes to higher-education, Baltimore is home to many public and private institutions.

Private institutions include:

• Baltimore International College
• College of Notre Dame of Maryland
• The Johns Hopkins University
• Loyola University Maryland
• Maryland Institute College of Art
• Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
  
• Sojourner-Douglass College

The city's public institutions include:

• Baltimore City Community College
• Coppin State University
• Morgan State University
• University of Baltimore
• University of Maryland, Baltimore

Los Angeles Education Jobs in Question

Several Los Angeles education jobs could soon be in danger.

The Los Angeles Unified School District recently instituted a policy meant to aggressively weed out poor-performing teachers and administrators.

"This district can rightly be criticized for the promotion of ineffective teachers over the years," Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines said. "That is about to change. We do not owe poor performers a job."

The policy encourages district supervisors to consider firing some of the 404 probationary teachers who were found to need improvement in their last performance evaluation. It also calls for greater scrutiny of the 339 administrators who have not yet become permanent and 175 tenured teachers who received negative evaluations last year.

The policy was implemented only days after the Los Angeles Times presented the district with conclusions of its own investigation. That investigation found the district has often failed to evaluate new teachers before granting them tenure, a status that makes it nearly impossible to fire teachers for performance reasons alone.

District officials have reported that the new policy is in response to 2,000 teachers who were laid off last year and expectations of future layoffs that must target teachers by seniority alone, according to state law.

Officials noted that, because of those measures, "some excellent teachers were let go while some who did not meet district standards were retained."

Teacher eliminations could end up affecting the Los Angeles area's thriving education industry, which has continued to see a monthly and yearly increase in employment, despite the current economic recession.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale area's education and health services industry employed 520,000 workers during November, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is up from 519,300 workers during October and a 1.5 percent increase from last year.