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Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure for CaliforniaSubstantial evidence presented makes it clear to this court that the challenged statutes disproportionately affect poor and/or minority students, Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court wrote in the ruling. The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience.
The decision, which was enthusiastically endorsed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, brings a close to the first chapter of the case, Vergara v. California, in which a group of student plaintiffs backed by a Silicon Valley millionaire argued that state tenure laws had deprived them of a decent education by leaving bad teachers in place.
Both sides expect the case to generate more like it in cities and states around the country. David Welch, a Silicon Valley technology magnate, spent several million dollars to create the organization that brought the Vergara case to court Students Matter and paid for a team of high-profile lawyers, including Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., who helped win a Supreme Court decision striking down Californias same-sex marriage ban. While the next move is still unclear, the group is considering filing lawsuits in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho and Kansas as well as other states with powerful unions where legislatures have defeated attempts to change teacher tenure laws.
I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED that Arne Duncan supports this. Fuck you Duncan!
Chan790
(20,176 posts)We love our teachers...and tenure laws are beneficial to our districts.
Absent them, CT public schools have no chance to compete for the best teachers against our numerous private and parochial schools, most of who can offer substantially better pay, benefits and prestige along with avoidance of standardized testing and race-to-the-top bullshit...the equalizer in applicant competitiveness is tenure. The public schools offer it and the privates do not.
Strike tenure in CT and you may as well abandon public education, you'd ghettoize the schools, creating a two-tiered system between the haves and have-nots as teachers of merit flee the public education system now that it carries no benefit of secure employment in favor of the additional $20K/year they can get to teach in private education.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)64. When teachers reached the magic age of 64, their evaluations suddenly turned sour. Teachers had good to excellent evaluations up to the age of 63. Then the evaluations turned south. They were then threatened with tenure charges or they could resign. Was it a coincidence that those people were also at the top of the salary guide?