Sentences with phrase «teacher tenure laws»

State teacher tenure laws are not a job guarantee but rather protection against arbitrary or politically motivated maltreatment.

The article comes on the heels of the contentious Vergara v. California (2014) verdict, which deemed teacher tenure laws unconstitutional in California.

And Anderson said while she recognized that the new teacher tenure law known as TEACHNJ provided some avenues for removing the least - effective teachers, the district needed to move more quickly than through a process that can include extensive documentation and arbitration.

Racially tinged expletives have been hurled atMichelle Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor, while an entire Web sitehas been created to lampoon Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor who is challenging teacher tenure laws around the country.

The New York Times reported that Welch's lawyers are «considering filing lawsuits in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho and Kansas as well as other states with powerful unions where legislatures have defeated attempts to change teacher tenure laws.»

The union campaign depicts Brown, who leads a group that has filed a New York State lawsuit modeled on the Vergara v. California case that found teacher tenure laws unconstitutional, as the puppet of former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and Brown's husband, GOP policy adviser Dan Senor.

The Vergara ruling has been stayed pending an appeal, but critics of teacher tenure laws clearly consider it a promising template for potential battles across the country.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A stunning decision to overturn teacher tenure laws in California has New York City parents mobilizing to seek the same thing here.

LOS ANGELES — A California judge ruled Tuesday that teacher tenure laws deprived students of their right to an education under the State Constitution and violated their civil rights.

EdSource wrote about a debate the four candidates had on Tuesday where Villaraigosa was the only candidate who committed to reforming teacher tenure laws.

Weber's bill would align California with teacher tenure laws in 42 other states, which award tenure after at least three years of teaching.

State lawmakers on Wednesday once again failed to amend teacher tenure laws, this time rejecting a bill that would have extended the probationary period from two to three years — even after the bill was stripped of its boldest language.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

He said Tuesday that he needed to do further research on a court ruling in California that struck down teacher tenure laws there, but he was cautiously supportive.

Opponents of New York State's teacher tenure laws won a small but important victory when a Staten Island judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of those rules to move forward.

Dean James Ryan comparing the ruling in Vergara v. California, which stated that the state's strong teacher tenure laws were unconstitutional, to school finance reform, which said you had to have equal resources in order to have equal educational opportunity.

In California, the state Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal in Vergara vs. California, so teacher tenure laws will stand.

When I'm feeling most foul about teacher tenure laws, this song becomes my earworm.

Mr. Duncan issued a statement saying the ruling could help millions of students who are hurt by existing teacher tenure laws.

The first half of 2016 brought high stakes and high drama to Los Angeles» education scene, from dire budget predictions to heated charter debates to attempts at overhauling teacher tenure laws.

(Calif.) Last week's decision that invalidated the state's teacher tenure law sent proponents on both sides scrambling to prepare for the appeals process and to do battle in other states over similar protections.

During the last legislative session they addressed problems with Alabama's teacher tenure laws passing much needed reforms.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

The plaintiffs said the school system did not follow teacher tenure law in the layoffs, and that they should have been systematically rehired as schools reopened, either in the Orleans system, in the state Recovery School District or as charters.

TRENTON — A bill that would overhaul the state's century - old teacher tenure law and link the job protection to annual performance evaluations for the first time will be considered today by lawmakers in the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.

The state senator who wrote and shepherded through New Jersey's new teacher tenure law remembers well the day a year ago when it was signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie including that it was an August scorcher.

A Superior Court judge's ruling last week in the Vergara case, striking down the state's two - year teacher tenure law, has given new impetus to the San Jose Unified School District's pursuit of a longer probationary period for teachers in some cases.

The board was in session to take up the administrative regulations that detail how New Jersey's 500 - plus school districts will implement the evaluations required by TEACHNJ, the landmark teacher tenure law approved last summer.

A blow to efforts to overhaul California's teacher tenure laws came in April, when the Court of Appeal overturned a Los Angeles Supreme Court ruling in Vergara v. California, which challenged teacher tenure, layoff laws and dismissal policies.

Teacher tenure laws arose in the 1920s and»30s from the women's rights movement of the time.

In a major victory for teachers unions in California, the state Supreme Court has upheld teacher tenure laws.

In a landmark decision that sent shock waves through the educational establishment, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu ruled last month that California's teacher tenure laws unconstitutionally deprive students of their guarantee to an education and to equal rights.

In California, an appeals court overturned a decision by a state judge that overturned that state's teacher tenure laws over the objections of teachers unions.

The proposed change, extending the probationary period from two to three years, would align California with the vast majority of teacher tenure laws throughout the country, which award tenure after three to five years of teaching.

As mayor, he attempted to take control of LA Unified and supported Vergara v. California, which challenged teacher tenure laws.

While the next move is still unclear, the group is considering filing lawsuits in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho and Kansas as well as other states with powerful unions where legislatures have defeated attempts to change teacher tenure laws.

Lawsuit Against Teacher Tenure Poised to Move Forward A lawsuit to overturn teacher tenure laws and seniority rights remained on track Thursday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a tentative ruling allowing the litigation to move forward.

By the start of July, 17 cases had been decided and posted by state arbitrators under the new teacher tenure law.

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Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's Partnership for Educational Justice, which recently recruited renowned attorneys David Boies and Laurence Tribe, seeks to reform teacher tenure laws, mirroring activities that led to California's controversial Vergara ruling.

Then in the closing days of June, state lawmakers defeated a bill that would have amended teacher tenure laws and extended the probationary period from two to three years — even after the bill was stripped of its boldest language.

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Last month, a California judge in Vergara v. State of California ruled that teacher tenure laws deprive students of their right to an education under the state Constitution and violate their civil rights.

Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.

The suits were prompted by a California judge's ruling in June striking down that state's teacher tenure laws.