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Related: About this forumNew 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
Squinch
(50,668 posts)No one in their right mind will become a teacher after this. No due process and nearly universal revilement.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)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.
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