Sentences with phrase «other job protections»

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

The judge ruled that the tenure and other job protection laws for teachers violate the state constitution's guarantee that children receive «basic equality of educational opportunity.»

Teachers unions, who have the money and the membership to exercise considerable clout in many state legislatures, defend tenure, seniority and other job protections as simply guaranteeing due process.

In that case, a state judge earlier this month struck down California's tenure system and other job protections embedded in state law, ruling that they deprived students of their constitutional right to a quality education because they shielded even the most incompetent teachers from dismissal.

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.

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.»

The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.

That agreement, which took two and a half years and a mediator's help to negotiate, gave teachers a 21 percent raise over five years while weakening seniority and other job protections.

While David Welch and his allies remain committed to waging legal battles against tenure, seniority, and other job protections, they are also pushing for statutory changes via the California legislature.