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Kahlenberg  \nTeacher tenure rights, §rst established more than a cen  \ntury ago, are under unprecedented attack. Tenure—  \nwhich was enacted to protect students’ education and  \nthose who provide it—is under assault from coast to coast, in state legislatures, in state courtrooms, and in the media.  \nIn June 2014, in the case of Vergara v. California, a state court judge struck down teacher tenure and seniority laws as a violation of the state’s constitution.* Former CNN and NBC journalist Campbell Brown has championed a copycat case, Wright v. New York, challenging the Empire State’s tenure law (which was consolidated with another New York case challenging tenure, Davids v. New York). Similar cases are reportedly in the works in several other states.1  \nMeanwhile, with incentives from the federal Race to the Top  \nRichard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, is the author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (2007) and a coauthor of A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education (2014). Portions of this article draw upon his articles “Abolish Tenure?”(Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2012) and “Tenure Is Not the Problem”(Slate, June 13, 2014).  \nprogram, 18 states have recently weakened tenure laws, and Florida and North Carolina sought to eliminate tenure entirely.2 According to the Education Commission of the States, in order to give greater weight to so-called performance metrics, 10 states prohibited using tenure or seniority as a primary factor in layo© decisions in 2014, up from §ve in 2012.3  \nLeading media outlets have joined in the drumbeat against tenure. A 2010 Newsweek cover story suggested that “the key to saving American education” is: “We must §re bad teachers.”4 In 2014, the cover of Time magazine showed a judge’s mallet crushing an apple. ¨e headline, referencing the Vergara case, read,“Rotten Apples: It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher; Some Tech Millionaires May Have Found aWay to Change ¨at.”5 Amidst this sea of negative publicity for educators, journalist Dana Goldstein wrote that “the ine©ective tenured teacher has emerged as a feared character,” like “crack babies or welfare queens” from earlier eras.6 Labor attorney ¨omas Geoghegan quipped that the “bad teacher” meme is so strong that one can imagine a young Marlon Brando, altering his famous line from On the Waterfront to say: “I…I could have been a contender—  \nbut I got that old Miss Grundy in the fourth grade!”7 Of course, conservatives have long attacked policies such as  \n*California is appealing the decision.  \n4 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | SUMMER 2015  \ntenure that constrain the ability of managers to §re whomever they want, but the latest assaults on tenure have invoked liberal egalitarian ideals. In the Vergara case, Judge Rolf Treu, a Republican appointee, claimed that the case, funded by a Silicon Valley millionaire, was about championing the rights of poor and minority students. Treu made a big show of comparing his decision weakening teacher tenure rights to the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education (which promoted school desegregation) and Serrano v. Priest (which required equity in education spending).8 Treu used a serious and pressing problem—that low-income students often have the weakest and least experienced teachers—not as an argument for addressing segregation or inadequate §nancial resources but instead as the rationale for weakening tenure rights.  \namaze me that with all the problems in education, we are so §xatedon the issue of teacher tenure. What is really going on?  \nWhat Is Tenure?  \nAmerican public school teachers are typically awarded tenure after a probationary period of about three years.11 Once a teacher has earned tenure, also known as due process, he or she has aright to know why a discharge i","cbCaij7gIf4CjWfX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij7gIf4CjWfX","pdf",654330,"English","# Tenure\n## What Is Tenure?\n## Court Challenges and Public Debate","[{\"question\":\"What does teacher tenure actually provide according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"Tenure provides due-process rights before a teacher can be fired, including the right to know why discharge is sought, to receive documentation, and to have the matter decided by an impartial body.\"},{\"question\":\"Which case is highlighted as striking down teacher tenure laws?\",\"answer\":\"Vergara v. California is highlighted, where a state court judge struck down teacher tenure and seniority laws as a violation of the state constitution.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the article describe tenure as a guaranteed job for life?\",\"answer\":\"No. The article states that tenure is not a guaranteed job for life; it is about due-process protections and procedures before dismissal.\"}]","Tenure - How Due Process Protects Teachers and Students | PDF",23]