Teacher Tenure Bad for Students?

Tenured teachers: They cheat, they loaf … they can’t be fired.  Have Big Labor Bosses created an unworkable educational system?

“It’s an outrageous outcome and an example of how the interests of adults are put ahead of the interests of kids,” said Dan Weisberg, executive vice president of the New Teacher Project, a Brooklyn nonprofit that works with schools on teacher quality.

It’s the type of case that led a California judge to rule last week that the state’s tenure rules make it difficult to fire bad teachers and violate students’ right to an equal education.