Teacher tenure lawsuits and their pitfalls
Brandon L. WrightIt’s open season on teacher employment protection laws in U.S. state courts. The watershed moment, of course, was June’s Vergara v. California verdict holding California’s laws unconstitutional. Vergara began back in March of 2012, when nine public school students filed suit against the State of California, arguing that California’s laws violated its constitutional guarantee of an effective education. In the seven weeks since, two high-profile copycat cases have been filed in New York State. Have we reached a point of no return? And if so, is that a good thing—even for those who oppose tenure? Don’t be so sure.
First Bell: August 6, 2014
Pamela TatzCALIFORNIA’S SCHOOL-FUNDING SYSTEMCalifornia’s new weighted student funding system has reached the one-year mark—and there are some lessons to be learned. (Hechinger Report)LOUISIANA VOUCHERS
Change and preservation in education reform
Andy's odyssey: Part twoThis series is wrestling with a set of related questions. Is education reform inherently anti-conservative? Are reformers behaving as though it is when it should be informed by conservatism? What have we wrought by stiff-arming conservatism? How might things be better if we sought counsel from conservatism?