Sentences with phrase «challenged tenure protections»
Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ Not exact matches
Backers of teacher tenure lost another battle to defend the job - protection practice when a Brooklyn court refused to toss a lawsuit challenging it.
A California Supreme Court majority declined to hear Vergara v. California, the case that challenged teacher tenure and other job protections for teachers.
In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)
As per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors.
Villaraigosa and O'Donnell had some back and forth exchanges and disagreements on various points, including Vergara vs. California, the landmark lawsuit challenging teacher tenure and other protections.
The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.
She faces court cases challenging teacher tenure and job protections, the defection of historically loyal Democrats, growing apprehension over the Common Core, diminishing ranks, public relations campaigns painting her union as greedy and a complicated chessboard of state and local members with a variety of interests.
The purpose of tenure — a term that is frequently misused — is to provide due process protection that allow teachers to voice their opinions, advocate for their students, and challenge inequities and bad practices without fear of unjust retaliation by principals, superintendents or school boards.
The unions have been fighting the expansion of public charter schools, teacher evaluations based on test scores, and challenges to tenure and other workplace protections.
The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.
During Pillay's tenure, the CCLA challenged the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, fought to end segregation in prisons by challenging the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and demanded more state accountability.