California Supreme Court decision keeps teacher tenure protections

[jpak]

Source: FOX News*

In a victory for teacher unions, the California Supreme Court decided Monday to let the state's teacher tenure law stand.

The high court decided not to review a lower court ruling that upheld tenure and other job protections for teachers. That ruling came in a lawsuit by a group of students who claimed that incompetent teachers were almost impossible to fire because of tenure laws and that schools in poor neighborhoods were dumping grounds for bad teachers.

The appeals court said in its decision in April that the students had failed to show California's hiring and firing rules were unconstitutional.

That appeals court had overturned a Los Angeles Superior Court judge's decision that sided with the students and threatened to shake up public schools that teach more than 6 million students from kindergarten through 12th grade statewide.

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/23/california-supreme-court-decision-keeps-teacher-tenure-protections.html

[wolfie001]

1. Shitstorm funded by David Welch

He's in the 1/100 of the top 1%ers. This is how venture capitalists use their carried interest leftovers. It'll never be enough for those fuckers!

[ancianita]

2. Wishing this were a legal precedent for the rest of the country's tenure decisions.

[bluestateguy]

3. Tenure is not popular, but it has to happen

yes, it's frustrating to have a bad teacher; I had a few myself.

But the alternative is worse: arbitrary and politically motivated firings, or a teacher gets disciplined/fired because the parents don't like him/her, or because the teacher gave the star football player an F, no due process, no freedom to teach about politically sensitive topics (like maybe a science teacher teaching about evolution in Alabama, or a science teacher teaching about climate change in coal country).

[GOLGO 13]

4. Any attack on unions is an attack on America.

[MichMan]

5. Unless it is the police unions according to many on DU

On DU, the police unions are regularly attacked and demonized. FYI, I don't agree

[GOLGO 13]

7. Then they are still wrong & we are still right.

[lindysalsagal]

6. Inability to fire is a myth. Judges decide stay or go.

If a district provides sufficient evidence, teachers get fired. The unions can only insist that rules are followed. They have no power to stop firings.

We need job protection against irrationAl parents. Or the kid's all get a's and the kids run the school.

We can't discipline without protection.