A state trial judge in Los Angeles has tentatively struck down five California statutes governing how the state’s public school teachers are fired, laid off or granted tenure.
Tuesday’s order came in a case brought by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Theodore Boutrous on behalf of nine public school children who claim that the state laws have protected thousands of “grossly ineffective” teachers across the state, thereby depriving them of equal access to a public education under California’s constitution.
