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USANews版 - Teacher tenure fight gains momentum with ruling
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July 11, 2014 - 1:35 PM
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A month after a California judge ruled that job protections
for teachers violated children's constitutional rights, one lawsuit making
the same claim has been filed in New York, another has been announced and
critics of teacher tenure in other states say they are preparing litigation
as well.
The June ruling in California has been stayed pending appeal and may never
take effect, but critics of teachers' unions are seizing on the idea of
using the courts to weaken union power and thus try to improve schools.
Mona Davids, president of the parents group that filed the New York lawsuit
targeting teacher tenure last week, called educational inequity "a crisis of
epic proportions." She said New York City neighborhoods that are mostly
black and Latino have the schools with the highest concentration of teachers
rated unsatisfactory.
"Yet," Davids said, "every attempt to hold teachers accountable for
educating our children is blocked."
The California ruling struck down state laws dictating how long it takes for
a teacher to earn tenure as well as rules that protect senior teachers
during layoffs. The plaintiffs argued that such union-backed job protections
mean that poor and minority schools are staffed disproportionately by bad
teachers, which violates students' rights.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said
such lawsuits "mean a continuation of the artificial division that in order
for students to win, teachers must lose."
But in the next few weeks, another group, the Partnership for Educational
Justice, founded by former CNN newswoman Campbell Brown, says it will file
an anti-tenure lawsuit in New York.
And parent activists in Connecticut and Pennsylvania say they are in the
early stages of preparing similar lawsuits over teacher tenure. Gwen Samuel,
president of the Connecticut parents Union, said 200,000 children are stuck
in low-performing Connecticut schools.
"Teacher tenure doesn't ensure that those kids have an effective teacher,"
Samuel said. "Guaranteeing a person a job regardless of their performance is
irresponsible."
But some say tenure rules are a small part of the reason some children have
better teachers than others, also citing such factors as overcrowded schools
, relatively low pay and chaotic working conditions.
"There are at least half a dozen strong reasons why we may not have as
highly qualified a teacher force as we might like," said Michael Rebell, a
Columbia University Teachers College professor and the executive director of
the Campaign for Educational Equity.
Rebell said the tenure system could be improved but it's a small factor that
"certainly doesn't rise to the level of a constitutional violation."
Even some who agree with the impulse behind the California lawsuit question
whether the courts are the right arena for deciding which teachers stay or
go.
"The intention here is entirely admirable," said Rick Hess of the American
Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "I don't think the results
are likely to turn out in a way that's going to actually promote reform."
He added, "It's not clear what exactly constitutes an acceptable teacher
tenure standard. These are judgment calls."
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