In June, a judge ruling in
favor of the plaintiffs said that student performance must be used as part of a teacher's evaluation.
Not exact matches
Following months
of legal wrangling, the commissioner
said the county BOE would agree to grant access to those records if the judge ruled in
favor of the
plaintiff.
Plaintiffs in these lawsuits
say they
favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers
of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.
Just last month, citing a part
of the education code that
says that a district may deviate from seniority (f) or purposes
of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection
of the laws, Superior Judge William Highberger ruled in
favor of the
plaintiffs.
«Lower courts have continued to allow
plaintiffs access to federal courts with a simple allegation
of a bare procedural violation or technical inaccuracy, resulting in forum - shopping by
plaintiffs for the court most likely to rule in their
favor,»
said Melissa Sorenson, executive director
of the National Association
of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).