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Tenure is the story in ed... and at last the truth is being sought!

When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu struck down the tenure rights of the state's public school teachers in Vergara v. California, his decision was hailed by Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., lead attorney for the plaintiffs, as "a terrific, wonderful day for California students and for the California education system."
The lawsuit, which had been brought on behalf of nine California schoolchildren, argued that the retention of "grossly ineffective" teachers through five due-process statutes violated the students' civil rights.
The suit and its accompanying public relations blitz had been bought and paid for by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch under the umbrella of Students Matter, Welch's personal Menlo Park education reform nonprofit. Welch made his fortune designing large-capacity fiber optics...
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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