Sentences with phrase «grant due process rights»

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»

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Shall the Missouri Constiitution be amended to define the term «person» to be from the beginning of biological development and grant such person constiitutional rights and access to courts under the equal protection, due process, and open courts provisions of the Missouri Constiitution?

Only nine years earlier, as we have seen, the Court had interpreted the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to mean that Congress could not bar slavery from the territories (and that members of the black race could not be citizens of the United States or enjoy any rights and privileges save those that the dominant white race chose to grant them).

Kellner claims because he was granted «due process», by a Silver appointed judge, in an appeal of the first sanctions, and was granted the right to see the evidence against him, the new charges and sanctions were made out of spite.

In a March 2009 ruling, Judge James Munley wrote that while such an injunction is an «extraordinary remedy,» he would grant it because «the parents in this case have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process right «to be free from state interference with family relations.»»

But the CTA opposed a bill that would have granted this exception to the law on tenure, a shorthand for extending permanent due process rights, to San Jose.

Under current state law, districts must decide by March of the second year whether to grant teachers permanent status or tenure, which provides due - process rights and job protections.

Once granted tenure, they gain due - process rights that make it expensive and difficult to fire them even if they're «grossly ineffective.»