Sentences with phrase «california education statutes»

In 2014, the plaintiffs in the Vergara trial claimed that several California education statutes — all of which are on the books at the behest of the teachers unions — cause greater harm to minority and economically disadvantaged populations because their schools «have a disproportionate share of grossly ineffective teachers.»

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If successful, this lawsuit will remove the tenure, seniority and arcane dismissal statutes from the California education code and render them unconstitutional, thus making it easier to get rid of incompetent and criminal teachers while outlawing seniority as a method of teacher - retention.

But because these terms are not found in statute, this meaning is used inconsistently, and the California Department of Education (CDE) discourages their use.)

Because education is a «fundamental interest» under the state Constitution, the five statutes that «dictate this unequal, arbitrary result violate the equal protection provisions of the California Constitution» and should be overturned.

In California, English language learners make up 22.3 percent of total enrollment in California public schools, but the majority of these students are placed in English - only immersion programs, as is mandated by Proposition 227, the 1998 statute that banned bilingual education in schools.

The story, «The War on Teacher Tenure,» is mostly about the Vergara decision — in which a judge found that the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes in the California education code are unconstitutional.

Plaintiffs allege that these statutes, which impinge students» fundamental right to education and have a disproportionate impact on low - income and minority students, violate their equal protection rights under the California Constitution.

«By statute, [CALPADs] comprises only the data that the federal government requires [California] to collect, so it's not a comprehensive data system [and there are] a lot of weaknesses in it,» said David Plank, head of the research group Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE.

June 6, 2014 ACLU of California and Public Advocates contacted then - Superintendent John Deasy requesting that the district remove the $ 450 million in special education expenditures from its estimate of services for high - need students to comply with the statute and regulations.

Chapter 558 of the Statutes of 2010 (Senate Bill 1413, Leno) establishes California Education Code (EC) Section 38086, which requires school districts to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times.