Christine Simo is the kind of teacher children tearfully cling to at the end of the school year. Last year, Simo's first-graders in her Las Vegas--area public school had to say goodbye for good, after her principal told her, also through tears, that Simo was being pink-slipped because of a pervasive policy known as last in, first out. LIFO, as the policy is called, dictates that when teacher layoffs occur because of budget cuts, the last teachers hired have to be the first ones fired, regardless of the quality of their work. Simo, 46, had gone through the rigorous process of...
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