Anthony Joseph Farina

A 3rd grade teacher at Logan Street Elementary in 2009

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Farina ranked:

Less effective than average overall.
Less effective than average in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 4 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Least effective in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 7 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Farina's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Logan Street Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Anthony Farina's Response:

My students scored mostly in the 70's, 80's and 90's in Math. Those are effective scores in any school district. My students are largely English Language Learners and English reading is harder for them. You do not have my permission to print my name and work location in your paper or website. And you know nothing about what goes on in LAUSD schools and are in no position to evaluate my performance. My employer has the legal right to evaluate me, you don't. Jason Song and Jason Felch know as much about public education in Los Angeles as I know about brain surgery. If your newspaper published the names and work locations of employees in any company they would sued to high heaven. Your above disclaimer states that the Times' standards do not allow personal attacks. Your reporters are presently attacking 6000 hard working teachers.

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