By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
“With less noise than it takes to close a book – or the door to an underperforming classroom – the movement to make it easier to fire incompetent teachers in California was put to rest on Monday, too quietly.
By a 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court decided not to review Vergara v. California. Though a Superior Court judge had found in 2014 that teachers’ job protections in this state go so far that they violate students’ constitutional guarantees of equal treatment and ‘shock the conscience,’ an appellate panel had overruled him in April.”