Silicon Valley-Backed Students’ Suit Aims at Teachers Tenure
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A group of California public school students, backed by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a lawyer who defended companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Apple Inc., are asking a judge to void state laws that they say let incompetent teachers keep their jobs.
The students claim in a case that went to trial today that the California law providing public-school teachers with tenure and four other statutes protecting their jobs violate children’s constitutional right to receive a basic education, especially in poor and minority schools.