Leave it to unions, especially teachers unions in California to try and defend grossly incompetent teachers and to force to state to let then remain in classrooms. Today, the California Superior Court in Los Angeles ruled that five California laws governing the hiring and firing of deadbeat teachers unconstitutional.
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| Boom! Teachers unions lose big in California |
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He ruled that such a system violates the state constitution’s guarantee that all children receive “basic equality of educational opportunity.” In a blunt, unsparing 16-page opinion, Treu compared his ruling to the seminal federal desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, decided 60 years ago last month. “The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience,” Treu wrote.
In adopting the language and legal framework of the civil rights movement, Treu gave a major boost to school reformers from both parties who have long argued that the current system dooms poor and minority students to inferior educations.
He might also have put further strain on the already-shaky alliance between teachers unions and Democrats.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/california-teachers-tenure-vergara-ruling-unions-107656.html#ixzz34HWeA1K9