By Amanda Oglesby | Asbury Park Press
“TRENTON – A group of Newark parents, opening a new attack on teacher tenure, have filed a lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s schools’ ‘last in, first out’ layoff scheme, charging the rule forces the retention of ineffective teachers and impinges upon students’ right to receive a proper education.
Six parents, with support from the nonprofit Partnership for Educational Justice, filed the lawsuit ‘HG v. Harrington’ in state Superior Court in Mercer County saying the ‘last in, first out’ rule conflicts with the state’s obligation to students under the New Jersey Constitution.”