Sentences with phrase «teacher job protections»

The results were mixed, and there does not seem to be overwhelming support for teacher job protections or opposition to them.

The numbers of respondents who said they support or oppose teacher job protections was also split almost down the middle.

Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ), a national education reform group that aims to challenge teacher job protections across the country, funded the New Jersey lawsuit.

One month later, an advocacy group led by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown filed a lawsuit similarly trying to roll back teacher job protections in New York.

Are courts the best place to address issues about teacher job protection like in Vergara case?

Survey: Teachers support changes in state job protection laws The majority of public school teachers who participated in a new survey support changes in state teacher job protection laws that were the focus of last year's landmark ruling in Vergara v. California.

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.

Marshall Tuck, who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent schools chief Tom Torlakson in a contentious 2014 race that became a proxy fight over a lawsuit on teacher job protections, will run again for state superintendent of public instruction.

The case, brought forward two years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and education activist Dave Welsh, challenged the court to weigh teacher job protections against a student's constitutional right to equal access to a quality education.

In fact, teacher job protection statutes, which California legislators developed and regularly review and update, allow school districts considerable latitude in hiring, firing, and assigning teachers, Rubin pointed out.

But make no mistake: Vergara is only about dismantling teacher job protections.

Another legal effort to weaken teacher job protections through the courts has been dismissed, this time in the Garden State.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 2014, finding that five long - standing teacher job protections, including a two - year probationary period for new teachers and a layoff system based on how many years one's been teaching, violated students» constitutional right to an equal education.

Critics counter that the real problems students face — particularly low - income students of color — are not teacher job protections, but their under - resourced, highly segregated schools that fail to attract and retain high - quality educators.

In New York City, the push for new teacher evaluations comes in the fourth year of Bloomberg's relentless mission to find new ways to fire teachers, not to mention amidst a nationwide push to end teacher job protections.

Since the lower court's Vergara ruling two years ago, similar suits challenging teacher job protections have been filed in New York and Minnesota.

Information about local school rankings also depresses support for teacher job protections.

A 2012 California lawsuit, the country's first legal attempt to challenge teacher job protections, inspired PEJ's litigation.

The views of teachers in the survey offer a path to compromise, «a «third way» between reformer calls to throw out all teacher job protections and old - guard calls to preserve virtually all elements of the current system,» Teach Plus, which has called for changing the laws challenged in the Vergara lawsuit, said in its summary of the teacher survey.

You've made the argument that these teacher job protection debates have to be considered in terms of tradeoffs.