Judge strikes down California teacher tenure

This could prove interesting, bu some how I bet he gets reverse - particularly since this is California.

Judge strikes down California teacher tenure

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge struck down tenure and other job protections for California's public school teachers Tuesday, saying such laws harm students — especially poor and minority ones — by saddling them with bad teachers who are almost impossible to fire.
In a landmark decision that could influence the gathering debate over tenure across the country, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu cited the historic case of Brown v. Board of Education in ruling that students have a fundamental right to equal education.
Siding with the nine students who brought the lawsuit, he ruled that California's laws on hiring and firing in schools have resulted in "a significant number of grossly ineffective teachers currently active in California classrooms."
He agreed, too, that a disproportionate number of these teachers are in schools that have mostly minority and low-income students.

 

Interesting, indeed. The teachers unions are going to be up in arms about this. But, to add balance to this thread, I've compiled a list of things that tenure is good for. Here's the list:

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