Articles

Lawsuit seeks to empower schools to fire bad teachers

January 31, 2014 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Should California’s schools be able to fire ineffective teachers? This is the subject of Vergara v. California, which asks the court to declare unconstitutional several California laws that hinder schools’ ability to fire ineffective teachers. For example, one challenged law allows a school to tenure a teacher after only 18 months on th ...