Suit challenges teacher tenure
Teacher tenure and seniority rules deny students equal access to an adequate education argues a California lawsuit. Testimony started yesterday in Los Angeles on Vergara vs. California. Students...
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Terrible tenure
Palo Alto High principal Phil Winston was being investigated for sexual harassing students and teachers when he stepped down nine months ago, parents learned last week. He’s now co-teaching special...
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California judge strikes down tenure, layoff laws
Beatriz Vergara testifies in Vergara v. California California’s laws on teacher tenure, layoffs and dismissal are unconstitutional, a Los Angeles trial judge has ruled. Low-income and minority...
View ArticleAfter Vergara, will tenure survive?
While he supports the Vergara verdict, Rick Hess doubts the courts can order higher quality of schools. California’s employment laws have made it ridiculously tough on school systems to do anything...
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Judge confirms Vergara ruling
The judge in Vergara vs. California has finalized his June ruling that state laws on teacher employment — including seniority-based layoffs and tenure — deny disadvantaged students access to a quality...
View ArticleGov. Brown appeals Vergara ruling
California Gov. Jerry Brown has filed an appeal of the Vergara ruling that struck down traditional job protections for teachers. The state’s two largest teacher unions also will appeal. The decision,...
View ArticleStatus quo wins in California
Triumph of the Status Quo is Ben Boychuk’s look at the California superintendent’s race. . . . reformers had high hopes for Marshall Tuck’s insurgent campaign against State Superintendent of Public...
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Treat pro athletes like teachers
Key and Peele’s TeachingCenter skit inspired dreams of teachers treated like pro athletes, but we need to treat pro athletes more like teachers, writes Matt Barnum on The 74 Million. “After all, when...
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Teacher pay is skewed to late-career teachers
Low teacher salaries often are linked to high turnover or teacher shortages, writes Marguerite Roza on Brookings’ Chalkboard. Districts make the problem worse by steering pay to high-seniority teachers...
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Teacher layoffs: It’s not just seniority
My old elementary school is slated for closing due to declining enrollment. Photo: Chicago Tribune I grew up on Chicago’s North Shore in Highland Park. Our baby-boomer parents moved there “for the...
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