Currently, it is virtually impossible to fire tenured California teachers, no matter how horrible California’s teachers really are, and California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is working hard to keep it that way.

California Democrat Governor Jerry Brown Tries Forcing Bad Teachers on Poor Students

Gov Brown and the Democrats want to make sure that the California’s badly broken tenure policy is not changed, and bad teachers are never fired. Instead of firing worthless teachers, Gov. Brown and the Democrats want to just move bad teachers around, putting the bad teachers into poor schools.

What is it with Democrats accepting and even protecting bad educators who do far more harm to children than help?

It all has to do with the teacher’s union, which Democrats don’t have the balls to stand up to, no matter how much damage these so-called teachers are doing to our kids.

California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown has filed an appeal of a judge’s decision gutting the state’s laws regarding tenure and seniority protection for taxpayer-funded public school teachers.

Brown’s appeal contends that a lower court ruling in June by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu fails to supply a proper legal basis and contains insufficient details, reports Fox News.

More specifically, the governor’s appeal alleges that Treu dismissed school districts from the case for “unclear and unexplained” reasons. Consequently, the appeal reasons, the district court decision “applies only to parties that have no role or duties under the challenged lawsuits.” Also, the appeal argues that Treu was wrong when he initially issued his decision on a tentative basis.

Treu’s 16-page tentative opinion in “Vergara v. California” cited “Brown v. Board of Education” among many other cases and concluded that strict rules limiting how teachers are hired and fired disproportionately impact the state’s poor and minority students, thereby depriving the students of their right under state law to an equal education.

The opinion became final on Thursday, a day before Gov. Brown’s appeal.

The case was brought by nine students, including the named plaintiff, Beatriz Vergara, through a national nonprofit organization called Students Matter. The plaintiffs successfully argued that the 6.2 million public school students in California receive grossly unequal treatment because the state’s education infrastructure routinely sends lousy teachers to schools filled with poor and minority students.

The ruling affects The Golden State’s tenure policy, which requires that teachers obtain tenure just 18 months into their careers. It also affects rules that make it virtually impossible to fire tenured California teachers who aren’t good at their jobs — particularly if they have seniority and have been bad for a long time.

Attorneys and advocates for teachers have defended the 18-month teacher tenure scheme. Without it, they worry, bad teachers might get sacked too quickly. Also, they argue, the quick tenure system upholds academic freedom and draws talented people to the teaching profession which, they say, pays poorly.

The average mid-career salary for a high school teacher at a California teacher in a unified school district is $66,133, according to state government figures. The highest salary for teachers in a unified school district is $85,735.

In 2012, the median household income in California was between $50,000 and $59,999, according to statistics from the U.S. Census.

California’s two largest teachers unions have also promised to file their own appeals.

In June, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, detailed her disappointment with the decision in a press release that blamed everything but bad teachers for poor academic outcomes.

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