Sentences with phrase «on teacher protection laws»

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On March 4, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu rejected a motion to dismiss the Vergara v. California case and continue the state's education trial where nine students are challenging the laws over teacher job protection.

Or will the state and its two major teacher unions prevail on appeal, convincing higher courts that the laws serve a valuable purpose, providing due process protections that help recruit teachers and keep them in the profession?

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

This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students from consequences for student test scores on a standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.

Under Colorado's law, passed with bipartisan support and signed by Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. on Thursday, even tenured teachers who are found to be «ineffective» for two consecutive years could lose job protections, and possibly their jobs.

In 2012, education law professors Preston Green and Joseph Oluwole, and education finance professor Bruce Baker, published an article outlining specific legal and policy problems with VAM and teacher evaluations, focusing on due process challenges, equal protection challenges, and disparate impact firings.

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.

Attorneys Theodore Boutrous, far right, and Marcellus McRae, second from right, represent nine California public school students who are suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections.

This law also required parents to attend meetings on poor student behavior and pledged state protection from frivolous lawsuits against teachers who act reasonably to establish order in their classrooms.

The author suggests that challenges in dismissing teachers result from administrators improperly apply the law, and that teachers need these protections to ensure that dismissal decisions are based on sound, fair reasons.

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.

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