Eric Owens | The 74

The board of education in New Brunswick, N.J. cannot fire a tenured elementary school teacher who showed up late for work 111 times over the last two years, a state arbitrator has ruled.

The habitually tardy, taxpayer-funded teacher is Arnold Anderson, reports NJ Advance Media. He teaches in a third-grade classroom at Roosevelt Elementary School, in a dilapidated part of New Brunswick full of old, modest homes. He’s been making an annual salary of $90,000 (plus a generous benefits package).

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Susan Edelman | New York Post

The city’s worst performing schools are the most segregated.

At 283 schools in the bottom quarter of Common Core test scores in Grades 3 through 8 this year, an average 96 percent of kids are black and Hispanic, 2 percent white and 2 percent Asian, city data show.

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Rich Calder | New York Post

The teachers union and state officials argued Tuesday that a lawsuit challenging New York’s tenure policy should be tossed because Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature approved a new law tightening teacher accountability.

The changes make the tenure suit moot, lawyers defending the state claimed during oral arguments in Staten Island Supreme Court.

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Jason Russell | Washington Examiner

A New York judge heard oral arguments Tuesday in Wright v. New York, a potentially landmark case that pits parents against teachers unions in an attempt to have the state’s teacher tenure laws declared unconstitutional.

Tuesday’s oral arguments included a debate over a motion to dismiss the case, with defendant lawyers representing the city of New York, New York State and New York State United Teachers.

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Beth Fertig | WNYC Schoolbook

New York state officials and teachers unions returned to court Tuesday to ask a judge to dismiss a case that challenges tenure in New York City schools.

They are arguing that changes made by the legislature this past spring to tenure and to the state’s teacher evaluation system have met the demands of parents who brought the suit. But the two groups of parents say the changes haven’t gone far enough.

The parents argue that tenure and other job protections violate students’ rights to a sound, basic education under the state’s constitution.

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Naomi Nix | The 74

A court case aiming to curb tenure and seniority protections for New York teachers was back in legal limbo Tuesday afternoon after lawyers argued in court over whether the suit should go forward in light of revised state laws governing tenure.

The lawsuit, Wright v. New York, was filed last year by nine parents who allege the combination of the state’s tenure protections, the teacher disciplinary process and the “last in, first out” mandates governing teacher layoffs violate students’ constitutional right to a “sound basic education.”

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Diane C. Lore | Staten Island Advance

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Nearly six months after a Staten Island judge denied a motion to dismiss an historic lawsuit that aims to revise New York state’s teacher tenure rules, defendants in the case — including attorneys for the state and city teachers’ unions — were back in court Tuesday, asking the judge to overturn his decision.

In March, Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo ruled in St. George that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit — who include Sam Pirozzolo, a Castleton Corners father and his two children — “clearly have standing” to assert their claims as students who have been deprived of their right to a sound, basic education.

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Lisa L. Colangelo, Ben Chapman | New York Daily News

Parents, activists and attorneys squared off in a Staten Island courtroom Tuesday in an ongoing battle over teacher tenure.

On one side, lawyers for the city, state and teachers unions urged Supreme Court Judge Philip Minardo to toss the suit brought by two plaintiff groups representing more than a half dozen New York families, which claims that teacher job protections violate students’ constitutional rights to a sound, basic education.

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Susan Edelman | New York Post

A city teacher sat in the rubber room an astounding four years while awaiting a snail’s-pace ruling in his disciplinary case, The Post has learned.

English teacher Edward Morrissey was accused of slapping and pushing a student at PS 109 in Brooklyn in 2009 — charges he denied. His administrative trial began in October 2010 and ended on Feb. 16, 2011.

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