All eyes on California tenure

All eyes on California tenure

Nine public school students are challenging California's tenure system, arguing their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors, reports Jennifer Medina in The New York Times. At issue is a set of rules that grant permanent employment status to California teachers after 18 months, require a lengthy procedure for dismissal, and require that teachers most recently hired are first to lose jobs during layoffs. The month-long trial promises to be a national test case on one of the most contentious debates in education. For the past decade, many attempts at similar legislative changes have been made, with mixed success. Teacher tenure has been eliminated in three states and in Washington, D.C., and a handful of states prohibit seniority as a factor in layoffs. But in many large states with urban districts, including California and New York, efforts have repeatedly failed. The California case is the most sweeping legal challenge to claim that students are hurt by employment laws for teachers. The case also relies on a civil rights argument so far untested: that poor and minority students are denied equal access to education since they are more likely to have "grossly ineffective" teachers. Judge Rolf Michael Treu of Los Angeles County Superior Court will decide the nonjury trial. His ruling will almost certainly be appealed to the State Supreme Court.  More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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