Teacher Placements on Trial in Colorado 'Mutual Consent' Case
Colorado's highest court is wading into the teacher tenure debate by agreeing to hear a case over how Denver Public School is placing tenured teachers on unpaid leave.
Colorado's highest court is wading into the teacher tenure debate by agreeing to hear a case over how Denver Public School is placing tenured teachers on unpaid leave.
Read EdWeek's explainer to the Vergara v. California teacher-tenure case.
No federal database tracks teacher misconduct, and states' attempts to share information suffer from sloppiness.
The emails, obtained through an open-records request, include sexual references.
Scores of education advocacy groups, scholars, law experts, and politicians have filed friend-of-the-court briefs on both sides of the Vergara appeal.
The appeals process in the Vergara case will likely close out 2015.
A judge's ruling last summer to overturn teacher-protection statutes was thinly argued and misread state constitutional law, they contend.
Unions say they'll appeal a Staten Island judge's decision March 12 to permit a challenge to the state's teacher-employment protections to move forward.
Today, a court will consider whether the Davids v. New York lawsuit, which seeks to overturn key sections of New York's tenure, layoff, and dismissal laws, will move forward.
One of the California lawyers in the Vergara case hints that constitutional provisions in Minnesota make it ripe for a similar challenge.
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