Re "CSU Teacher programs" (Your Opinions, March 3):

As usual, the information offered about how great teacher training programs are at CSU and elsewhere comes from those who have a vested interest in keeping the programs going as they are or becoming more expensive and cumbersome. Secretary of Education Richard Riordan could do a service to parents, taxpayers and students by surveying teachers who have been through those programs, getting their frank responses as to how useful and/or abusive those programs really are, and making the results very public.

The teacher training program I was in, the Los Angeles Unified District Intern Program, stopped surveying interns after receiving very negative results on the first and only survey we were given.

Phillip R. Pearson
Agoura Hills