Sentences with phrase «job protections for teachers»

Lawmakers have passed a number of controversial, partisan measures, rapidly expanding school choice, cutting school resources, and eliminating job protections for teachers.

A California Supreme Court majority declined to hear Vergara v. California, the case that challenged teacher tenure and other job protections for teachers.

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

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.

There were few job protections for teachers against future layoffs or downsizing that were looming on the horizon.

Teacher tenure is cast as a civil rights issue for struggling students, because job protection for teachers is supposedly an obstacle to improving educational outcomes and closing the «achievement gap.»

So far this month in education news, a California court has decimated rigid job protections for teachers, and Oklahoma's governor has abolished the most rigorous learning standards that state has ever had.

According to this TNTP guide, the original Vergara ruling from June 2014 sheds light on how existing laws support job protection for teachers and make it virtually impossible for districts to replace low - performing ones.

The Washington Post reported that the court decided «tenure, seniority and other job protections for teachers have created unequal conditions in public schools and deprive poor children of the best teachers.»

A court ruling on Tuesday striking down job protections for teachers in California deals a sharp blow to unions — and will likely fuel political movements across the nation to eliminate teacher tenure.

Charters have also become a touchstone for how people feel about a host of related issues: job protections for teachers, the role of elected school boards and teachers unions, and the privatization of schools.

This reversal did not determine that the quality of education was compromised by tenure or job protections for teachers or that students were deprived of their constitutional right to an education.

It was recently announced that ex-Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, with former Obama campaign worker Ben Labolt, in a dark looking organization called the Incite Agency, will now be leading the California version of the Vergara case with lawsuits against due process, seniority, and job protections for teachers.