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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?

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As CalWatchdog.com's Chris Reed argued, «That is good news for those considering taking on public employee unions in 2016 with ballot measures putting limits on government pensions or scrapping state laws allowing teachers to receive lifetime tenure after less than two years on the job.»

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

Cohen and Walsh point out that it is state law which drives tenure policy and which frequently mandates much of the anachronistic step - and - lane pay schedule as well as the restrictions on teacher evaluation.

Statewide tenure laws remain largely intact, as do laws that require a specific set of education - school courses before a teacher can be certified, despite the paucity of evidence that such courses (or certification) yield benefits in the classroom.

In the K — 12 world, however, tenure remains the norm for public school teachers in the district sector, vouchsafed in most places by state law and big - time politics, as well as local contracts, even in so - called «right to work» states.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

Louisiana state law illustrates the relative ease in earning tenure: «Such probationary teacher shall automatically become a regular and permanent teacher in the employ of the school board of the parish or city, as the case may be, in which he has successfully served his three - year probationary term.»

States should improve their teacher licensing processes to ensure that the effectiveness of all teachers is assessed on a regular basis as a condition for the granting and renewal of a state teaching license — regardless of the particular criteria for evaluation and tenure laid out in state tenure laws and collective bargaining contracts

Fordham's Mike Petrilli and AEI's Mike McShane discuss the spread of legal challenges to state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal, and seniority in the wake of the Vergara v. California ruling, in which a court struck down California's laws governing teacher employment as unconstitutional.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

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

The appeal decision will be closely watched throughout the state and beyond, as the future of California's teacher employment laws surrounding tenure, seniority and dismissal hang in the balance.

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

As part of Michigan's teacher tenure reform law, the Michigan Council of Educator Effectiveness was established by the Legislature in June 2011 with the charge of creating a «fair, transparent and feasible evaluation system for teachers and administrators.»

SGOs are one of three measures used to judge teacher effectiveness as part of the teacher tenure reform law that went into effect last year.

The Wright v. New York case was first filed in 2014, when nine families from across the state brought suit against the State of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State Constitution.

The state Department of Education last week released a mostly positive report on the initial year of the system as dictated under the TEACHNJ tenure reform law, citing some challenges but praising the progress in meeting requirements for additional observations and goal setting for teachers.

The tests would still be rolled out as planned if the legislation passed but the results would not count toward teacher evaluations, the centerpiece of the teacher tenure reform law signed by Christie in 2012.

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.

Under previous and current state law, districts laying off tenured teachers must do so in order of seniority, a practice known as «last in, first out,» or LIFO.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

He said he is open to revising the law that grants teachers tenure after two years and including student test scores as «a tool in the toolbox of teacher evaluation.»

Defendants in the case, the state and teacher unions, are trying to prove that these other factors make it difficult for the nine - student plaintiffs to show that state laws governing teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure should be struck down as impediments to a quality education.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

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 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 California laws at issue mandated that teachers receive specific job security protections, known as tenure, after two years in the classroom.

The Vergara decision, striking down tenure and dismissal laws in California as depriving the state's most vulnerable students equal access to a quality education, was widely seen as a blow to the teachers union and has moved public opinion toward agreeing with change.

The California Supreme Court's decision on whether to take up Vergara v. California, a landmark ruling that challenged teacher tenure and declared some school employment laws unconstitutional, could come as early as this afternoon.

The stage was set with the two public education luminaries, ready to square off on such lightning rod issues as tenure and teacher dismissal laws in the wake of last month's Vergara trial: Randi Weingarten, leader of the nation's second largest teachers organization, AFT, and Superintendent John Deasy, leader of the second largest school district in the...

The regulations adopted by the New York State Board of Regents based on the 2010 law changing how the evaluations must work includings a line that says the new evaluations must be «a significant factor in employment decisions such as promotion, retention, tenure determinations, termination, and supplemental compensation,» as well as how teacher and principal development is approached.

Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood ordered a permanent injunction against the implementation of the law that ends career status, known as teacher tenure.

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

Judge Robert Hobgood ordered a permanent injunction against the law, which would eliminate career status — commonly known as teacher tenure — by 2018.

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.

Under the new Louisiana law, teachers must be rated as «highly effective» in the state's evaluation system for five consecutive years before they can be granted tenure.

They come on the heels of the state's new teacher tenure law, which reinforced the requirements for mentors of first - year teachers, as well as those new to a school.

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Of that, $ 1.25 million will be made available to districts in grants to help pay for training of administrators and teachers in the state's new teacher - evaluation system under the tenure reform law known as TEACHNJ.

Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf said he is glad the bill, if enacted into law, would end tenure as lifetime job security, and require that teacher ratings play a significant role in determining who would be let go during layoffs.

Other national groups also propose parent trigger laws as part of agendas that favor charter schools, eliminating teacher tenure, and restricting teachers» unions.

As the Christie administration's new regulations for teacher evaluation near a critical juncture, the prime author of the landmark tenure reform law behind the proposed rules said the administration may be moving too aggressively in some places.

TRENTON — After 18 months of negotiation, a proposed law that would end teacher tenure as a largely automatic and careerlong right cleared an important hurdle with the blessing of the state's teachers unions and bipartisan political support.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.