By Noah Feldman | Bloomberg View
“In a victory for teachers’ unions, the California Supreme Court on Monday refused to strike down the state’s generous tenure laws — which a lower court had said violated students’ rights to an adequate education. Significantly, the court’s 4-3 ruling didn’t break down on purely partisan lines. Two prominent liberals, each of whom could be contenders for the U.S. Supreme Court in a Hillary Clinton administration, dissented. That’s evidence of a growing divide among liberals about whether favoring teachers might actually be a bad thing for students.”