The Washington Teachers Union will file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of its 241 teachers fired last week for poor performance in the classroom, union President George Parker said Monday. “The story is not the firings so much as the document upon which the firings are based,” Parker said. “It is a flawed document.”
By CARL CAMPANILE The New York Post The NAACP today will join a teacher’s union lawsuit to block the city from closing 19 low-performing schools, claiming the action discriminates against minority and special-needs students, sources said.
By JENNIFER MEDINA The New York Times A parent council in Manhattan and the city’s teachers’ union sued the Department of Education on Monday, contending that the department had not adequately consulted with the council in deciding which schools to close and in altering school boundaries.
October 11, 2008 By JENNIFER MEDINA The New York City teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit on Friday claiming that a policy banning political pins and signs in schools violates teachers’ First Amendment rights by blocking them from political expression. The lawsuit comes nearly two weeks after the Department of Education sent a memo to [...]
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI Associated Press Writer NewsDay.com Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts Jr. says he intends to file court papers blasting New Jersey school chiefs for suing the state to overturn new rules limiting their pay and benefits. Roberts lauds efforts by Education Commissioner Lucille Davy and Attorney General Anne Milgram to halt the lavish [...]
BY JOHN MOONEY Star-Ledger Staff Administrators association challenges new state rules on contracts and compensation Adding fuel to the debate over school costs, the group representing New Jersey’s superintendents filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the state education commissioner, claiming new limits on administrators’ pay are arbitrary and unconstitutional.
BY JOE DONOHUE The Star-Ledger Staff Former mayor seeks to stop borrowing to build dozens of schools Conservative political activist and possible gubernatorial candidate Steven Lonegan filed a lawsuit yesterday that challenges New Jersey’s pending plan to borrow $3.9 billion to build dozens of new schools around the state. “The court can no longer allow [...]
BY BARBARA CURTIS The Record RECENTLY, a kindergarten teacher seeking relief from a challenging special-needs student named Alex Barton did the unthinkable: She stood him before his kindergarten peers and encouraged them to say what they didn’t like about his behavior. Then she asked the students if they wanted him back in class after his [...]