Sentences with phrase «tenure laws unconstitutional»

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.

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In a stunning decision, a judge in the California Superior Court has ruled that, because education is a fundamental right of California youth, the laws governing teacher tenure, teacher dismissal and rules for layoffs are unconstitutional.

In June, a California court ruled, in Vergara v. State of California, that the state's tenure and seniority laws are unconstitutional.

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.

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.

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.

Two years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu ruled that tenure laws were unconstitutional because they made it virtually impossible to fire incompetent teachers, and that especially hurt students in poor neighborhoods.

In a historic ruling yesterday, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge declared California's laws around teacher tenure, seniority and related policies to be unconstitutional.

Last month, the state Supreme Court refused to take up Vergara v. California, a landmark case that challenged teacher tenure and declared some school employment laws unconstitutional.

In June, a judge in California struck down the state's tenure laws as unconstitutional.

Teacher tenure laws were ruled unconstitutional Tuesday by a California Supreme Court judge in the case Vergara v. California, which could have far - reaching effects on education, reports Mel Robbins of CNN.

Alexandria, VA — In a sweeping victory for education reformers in California, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that state laws governing teacher tenure protections are unconstitutional.

High - profile Democrats — including Rep. George Miller (Calif.) and Education Secretary Arne Duncan — shocked teachers in June when they applauded a Los Angeles judge's ruling that California's teacher tenure laws were unconstitutional.

The California Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling that had challenged teacher tenure and declared school employment laws unconstitutional.

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.

«This legislature tried to retroactively take teacher tenure from those teachers who have earned it, and this is yet another law passed that the court has ruled unconstitutional,» Hall said in his statement.

A Wake County superior court judge ruled Friday that a state law ending teacher tenure is unconstitutional, arguing the state can not take away the due process rights of teachers.

A California judge has ruled that the state's teacher tenure laws, dismissal procedures, and lay - off processes are unconstitutional because they violate students» civil rights to an equal education.

The landmark case in which in which a court found the state's laws regarding teacher tenure, firings and layoffs are unconstitutional has become a litmus test for public officials.

California's teacher tenure laws were deemed unconstitutional by a state superior court judge because they violate the right to an equal education.

There, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found similar state laws unconstitutional, ruling that tenure rules disproportionately saddle poor and minority students with «grossly ineffective» teachers, a violation of the right to equality of education spelled out in California's constitution.