Reply #284: My understanding (which may not be correct)

[Yo_Mama]

is that the ACLU is trying to prevent these schools from bearing the brunt of the layoffs. It's not against teacher tenure, but the results of these schools having more junior personnel would cause them to lose far more teachers than in the system as a whole (as a result of bumping).

I did read a brief in this case a while ago.

The proposed solution I read about was supposed to segregate these schools so that the bumps from outside them from layoffs don't disproportionately affect them, but it wasn't supposed to attack tenure as a system.

Which, I grant, is no comfort if you are a teacher who would have retained a job in the system by bumping a teacher in one of these schools.