Education
Apr. 20, 2016
Vergara reversed: Reform requires funding, not making teachers at-will
Professor Catherine L. Fisk gives her take on the recent decision in California's landmark teacher-tenure case.
Catherine L. Fisk
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Law
Email: cfisk@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA
In Vergara v. California, 2016 DJDAR 3641 (April 14, 2016), the California 2nd District Court of Appeal correctly overturned a trial court decision that had invalidated teacher job security provisions of the California Education Code in effect in some form since 1921 that require just cause for dismissal of tenured teachers and adopt seniority as a criterion in layoffs in cases of budget shortfall or declining enrollm...
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