LA Times Reporter Takes Some Heat in Berkeley Over Teacher Suicide

LA Times reporter Jason Felch sat in on a panel at UC Berkeley yesterday to discuss the Times’ recent controversial series on teacher evaluations and the paper’s decision to publish the names and scores of the teachers in those evaluations. From the sound of it, Felch was on receiving end of some flack in the wake of the suicide of fifth-grade teacher Rigoberto Ruelas–who family members and teachers union officials say may have been driven to suicide by the Times’ publishing on his teacher evaluation scores.