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Related: About this forumAnother Blow To Supporters of Public Education in Dallas. Can someone please explain this ruling?
Judge Ginsberg ruled in favor of DISD. He said that Alliance AFT did not prove harm to the plaintiffs (teachers). If there's an attorney or anyone familiar with law present, I'd like him/her to explain this to me if possible because I just don't understand.
1. DAC members- These people select the teachers that are required to help write the home rule charter, BUT...
2. DAC members have to be ELECTED and not appointed by law. Seven of the DAC members were unlawfully appointed by board members (one POSSIBLY being board member Morath). Judge Ginsberg even stated that they were unlawfully seated. So...
3. If one of these DAC members were appointed by the board member who took it upon himself to initiate a vendetta to dismantle DISD (which includes the teachers), why isn't that proof enough for harm? Shouldn't the fact that the law was broken in the placement of some DAC members take precedence in the matter? Or, did Alliance AFT possibly file the wrong charge?
Thanks.
http://www.dfpe.org/pdf/injunction_denied-6-19-14.pdf
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2014/06/judge-denies-alliance-afts-legal-challenge-to-dallas-isd-home-rule.html/
DhhD
(4,695 posts)And not knowing is also harmful because teachers may need to reapply to the new Charter District or to another school district in order to maintain their income livelihood and responsibility to the Teacher Retirement of Texas. What has the charter committee offered as a continuing retirement venue?
Perhaps the suite might be reinstated after the draft charter is written and the draft shows harm to teachers.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)teachers. Some recent posts on Texas Group have been about the deception and/or destruction of guaranteed state public pension systems around the country.
kjackson227
(2,166 posts)... I just don't understand how the process can be continued if the process has been determined to be unlawful from the start. Shouldn't the entire process be judged unlawful and corrupted at this point?
DhhD
(4,695 posts)compare with the current State approved process. After the draft charter or charter is drawn up, then parts of its processes or its objectives, could be determined to be harmful. I see the Charter document as an opposing platform to the current/2014-15 school year DISD Curriculum, in the November election. Where's the Draft-Where's the Beef, so these opposing documents can get chewed?
kjackson227
(2,166 posts)... a state law was broken when the DAC members were appointed, and not elected. Why would the initial charter draft be needed to prove harm? At the point that DAC members have unlawfully been seated by those who want the DISD system dismantled, I would think that would be enough harm proven.
But anyway, thanks for your help.