Sentences with phrase «governing teacher employment»

«The anecdotes plaintiffs have tried to use as evidence have no connection to these laws and could have been given by students in any other state with widely different laws governing teacher employment,» she said.

Fordham's Mike Petrilli and AEI's Mike McShane discuss the spread of legal challenges to state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal, and seniority in the wake of the Vergara v. California ruling, in which a court struck down California's laws governing teacher employment as unconstitutional.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging state laws that govern teacher employment put their case on pause today, allowing the defense team to call one of its key experts to the witness stand.

The opinions of Thomas Kane went to the heart of the plaintiffs» case in Vergara v California, in which nine students are challenging state laws governing teachers employment.

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Students Matter's proposed Teacher Employment Policy Pillars make recommendations for commonsense changes to the unconstitutional, quality - blind Education Code provisions that currently govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs in CaliTeacher Employment Policy Pillars make recommendations for commonsense changes to the unconstitutional, quality - blind Education Code provisions that currently govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs in Caliteacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs in California.

The law governing the state district says that when schools are taken over, existing teachers «shall be given priority consideration for employment in the same or comparable position.

When coupled with bad policies and practicesthat govern professions — be they use - of - force laws and dismissal processes in law enforcement, or near - lifetime employment rules and subjective teacher quality evaluation regimes in education — as well as the legacies of the state - sanctioned bigotries that are America's Original Sins, the damages to both professions, peoples, and communities are devastating.

In giving the state an «F» in dismissing ineffective teachers, the report makes a direct reference to the Vergara case, in which Judge Rolf Treu struck down the current teacher employment laws that govern seniority, dismissal and layoffs, saying they helped keep ineffective teachers in poor performing schools.

The judge referred to the governing legal test for determining if an employer is vicariously liable for employee sexual misconduct, and concluded that because the alleged abuse was said to have occurred while the teacher was simply carrying out his ordinary duties as a teacher, without taking advantage of any specialized opportunities afforded to him by virtue of his employment, no vicarious liability would have attached to the school board even if the alleged sexual misconduct had been proven.