So closes Vergara's first chapter

So closes Vergara's first chapter
A California judge has ruled that teacher-tenure laws deprive students of their right to an education under the California State Constitution and violate their civil rights, reports Jennifer Medina for The New York Times. The decision could radically alter how California teachers are hired and fired, and is expected to prompt challenges in other states. The decision, endorsed by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, closes the first chapter of Vergara v. California, in which a group of student plaintiffs backed by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur argued that California tenure laws deprived them of a decent education by leaving bad teachers in place. In his 16-page ruling, Judge Rolf Treu agreed with the plaintiffs' contention that California's laws make it impossible to remove the system's numerous low-performing and incompetent teachers, and that tenure essentially assures them a job for life; that seniority rules requiring newest teachers to be laid off first are harmful; and that granting tenure to teachers after only two years on the job is farcical. Further, the least effective teachers are disproportionately assigned to schools filled with low-income and minority students. The decision is believed to be the first legal opinion to assert that quality of education is as important as access to schools and/or sufficient funding. More. Related

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