“California’s Supreme Court has the opportunity to make a civil-rights breakthrough by agreeing to hear a landmark case that challenges teacher tenure laws on equal protection grounds.” The opening sentence in a WSJ article today, editorial page. The article goes on to say that six students have sued California because lousy teachers are moved to low income schools since getting rid of them takes forever, is almost impossible and very costly.
The first trial judge agreed, it was appealed-supported by the idiot governor Brown and the unions of course-and the appeals court vacated the ruling. Now it goes to the supreme court.
The web if full of more detail, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/vergara-v-california/, Huffington even agrees!
When will the money and power of the teachers unions stop protecting lousy teachers, our education results have been sliding for years, from in the high single digits to low 10’s when compared with our global competitors. Wake up America! Our youth are being screwed.
When does anyone deserve a lifetime job? The rest of us sure aren’t. Academic freedom my butt, this is pure power and money.
Living in Alabama we are starting to see a change, not much yet, but the local union, the AEA, spent $40 million in the last cycle and all the candidates lost and the NEA had to come in and take over the union.
What are the results? That is the question.