SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The American Federation of Teachers says it hopes the California Supreme Court’s decision upholding the state’s teacher tenure law closes the book on the flawed argument linking educators’ workplace protections with student disadvantage.
A representative for students who challenged the tenure law, meanwhile, says he hopes the state legislature will rewrite education laws with students’ best interests in mind.
In a victory for teacher unions, the California Supreme Court decided Monday to let the state’s teacher tenure law stand.
The high court said it would not take up a lawsuit by a group of students who claimed that incompetent teachers were almost impossible to fire because of tenure laws and that schools in poor neighborhoods were dumping grounds for bad teachers.
The decision leaves in place a lower court’s court ruling that upheld tenure and other job protections for teachers.
