Sentences with phrase «governing teacher strikes»

In a filing to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, CPS repeats its long - held argument that Friday's walkout by the Chicago Teachers Union is illegal because it doesn't follow the state law governing teacher strikes.

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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.

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday affirmed a tentative June ruling that struck down five laws governing job protections for teachers in California.

This is evident from the fact that more than 90 percent of Chicago teachers voted to authorize the strike and that the union's governing body so mistrusted the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that it took two additional days to go over the proposed contract's fine print.

Teacher tenure and dismissal laws are probably most polarizing, a status that has only grown since Los Angeles County Judge Rolf M. Treu issued his 16 - page ruling striking down state laws that govern the hiring and firing of classroom educators.

Defendants in the case, the state and teacher unions, are trying to prove that these other factors make it difficult for the nine - student plaintiffs to show that state laws governing teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure should be struck down as impediments to a quality education.

Another sign of the shifting sands: the ruling this week in Vergara v. California striking down laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers.

Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades - old California laws governing teacher tenure and other job protections on the grounds that they violate the state's constitution.

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 governing body of the Chicago Teachers Union will meet next week to consider what conditions could trigger a strike this school year.