Sentences with phrase «tenure system violates»

The plaintiffs in the case, minority students in California, had argued that California's teacher tenure system violates the equal protection clause because it protects teachers who are ineffective, and poor and minority students are more likely to be assigned these ineffective teachers.

Not exact matches

As per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors.

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.