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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:36 AM Jun 2014

New York State Challenge Planned on Teacher Tenure Law

LESLIE BRODY

A new advocacy group is helping parents prepare a challenge to New York's teacher tenure and seniority laws, contending that they violate children's constitutional right to a sound basic education by keeping ineffective teachers in classrooms.

Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor who has been a critic of job protections for teachers, launched the group, Partnership for Educational Justice, in December. She said six students have agreed to serve as plaintiffs, arguing they suffered from laws making it too expensive, time-consuming and burdensome to fire bad teachers.

The preparations to challenge the state's tenure laws this summer follow a landmark ruling in California earlier this month. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu struck down the state's laws on tenure, dismissal and seniority, saying they disproportionately saddled poor and minority students with incompetent teachers. Evidence that ineffective teachers hurt learning, he wrote, "shocks the conscience."

California unions that intervened in the case, Vergara v. California, said they would appeal, and legal analysts predicted the ruling would inspire similar suits around the country.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-york-state-challenge-planned-on-teacher-tenure-law-1403578853

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New York State Challenge Planned on Teacher Tenure Law (Original Post) hrmjustin Jun 2014 OP
Do I see the invisible hand of ALEC? Squinch Jun 2014 #1
I have no doubt ALEC and the anti-teacher union SOB's are involved. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #2
Brown doesn't know her ass from her elbow. Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 #3
I always knew she was a RWer. She covered Bush in 2000 and it was clear she was for him. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #4

Squinch

(50,668 posts)
1. Do I see the invisible hand of ALEC?
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:57 PM
Jun 2014

No one in their right mind will become a teacher after this. No due process and nearly universal revilement.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
3. Brown doesn't know her ass from her elbow.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:15 PM
Jun 2014

And that's putting it mildly. Tenure actually PROTECTS kids from corruption and dysfunction at the administrative level.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025125610

Who else is going to blow the whistle on the bullshit that regularly goes in ps...besides the classroom teacher?

To say that this imbecile and her band of money -grubbing cut-throats have an "agenda" is to comically understate the case.



Edit to fix link.

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