By JT Aregood | Politicker NJ
“Six Newark parents filed suit Tuesday over the city school district’s ‘last in, first out’ teacher layoff statute, a policy that they say protects underperforming teachers at students’ expense. HG v. Harrington would challenge the constitutionality of the policy, which mandates that schools lay off their newest teachers first regardless of quality.
Filed in Mercer County Superior Court, the case between unnamed minors represented by their parental guardians against Acting New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Kimberly Harrington argues that the policy violates student’s right to an education by ignoring research the plaintiffs say points to better outcomes when performance is considered during cuts.”