By Jessica Glazer
Chalkbeat NY
“A month after announcing their plans to challenge New York’s teacher-tenure laws, a group of seven families led by the news-anchor-turned-education-activist Campbell Brown will file a complaint in state court on Monday.”
By Ben Chapman
New York Daily News
“In a suit to be filed in Albany on Monday, seven families will charge that their children are underserved in schools due to incompetent teachers — who only kept their jobs because of tenure rules that violate the kids’ constitutional right to a sound education. The suit is backed by the politically connected journalist-turned-education advocate Campbell Brown.”
By Campbell Brown
New York Daily News
“The tenacious New York parents who are challenging the state in court have one goal in mind: ensuring that all of our public school children have good teachers. They know that research confirms the single greatest in-school factor in a child’s academic success is a good teacher. They believe that the state’s guarantee of a sound education for all is absolutely dependent upon — you guessed it — good teachers.”
By Jonathan Chait
New York Magazine
“Paul Farhi profiles Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor turned education-reform activist, who is working to end strict teacher tenure protections. Naturally, this enrages teacher-union evangelist Diane Ravitch, who not only disagrees with Brown’s position, but expresses offense that anybody should listen to Brown at all:”
By Karen Matthews
The Chronicle
“NEW YORK — A month after a California judge ruled that job protections for teachers violated children’s constitutional rights, one lawsuit making the same claim has been filed in New York, another has been announced and critics of teacher tenure in other states say they are preparing litigation as well.”
By Paul Farhi
The Washington Post
“Campbell Brown used to host a program on CNN with a tough-sounding subtitle, “No Bias. No Bull.” Brown was an equal-opportunity skeptic — “spunky-yet-shrewd,” as the New York Times once described her — who called out liberals and conservatives alike during her hour on the air each weeknight.”
By Stephen Sawchuck
Education Week
“In the annals of education-equity cases, the decision in Vergara v. California was nothing less than a bombshell.
The ruling last month by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge said that aspects of California teachers’ tenure and due-process protections violated the constitutional rights of the state’s neediest children. Within minutes, advocates proclaimed it a win for students who have historically received lower-quality education; others, such as the California Teachers Association, saw it as an unbridled attack on teachers and unions.”
By Anne Michaud
Newsday Opinion
“The lineup sounds like the cast of a new “The Avengers” movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark case in California installing a “parent trigger,” which allows public school parents to take over their schools by majority vote.”
By Michael Petro
Albany Business Review
“Six families from across New York State plan to file a lawsuit challenging teacher tenure laws that they believe, “keep ineffective, and even dangerous, teachers in the classroom.””
Opinion
New York Daily News
“Inspired by an earth-shattering California ruling that struck down teacher tenure laws as damaging to children, a group of families is set to challenge New York statutes that keep incompetent instructors in the classroom.”