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Vergara v. California was a lawsuit in the California state courts which dealt with a child's right to education and to instruction by effective teachers.The suit was filed in May 2012 by lawyers on behalf of nine California public school student plaintiffs.
California struck down California's LIFO layoff rules as having a disproportionately negative impact on poor and minority public school students, thus violating the California Constitution. [20] The Vergara trial judge noted that teacher layoffs prioritized solely by seniority prevented senior and ineffective teachers from being laid off before ...
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
Modesto City Schools’ Board of Education voted 5 to 2 to approve a plan to lay off 75 district employees as part of an estimated $10.6 million budget reduction.
The California Department of Education found that the Rocklin Unified School District violated state education code when it passed a parental notification policy in September, according to a ...
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California lawsuit, which challenged LAUSD’s seniority-based teacher layoff policies, as well as testifying in the Vergara v. California lawsuit. [6] In 2016, Melvoin announced that he would be a candidate for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for District 4, held by member and Vice President of the Board Steve Zimmer.
In 2010, Pitts was part of the legal team that represented the United Teachers Los Angeles in Reed v. United Teachers Los Angeles.The case involved the Education Code and the collective bargaining agreement between the district and its teachers, which generally requires that when the district reduces its teaching force for budgetary reasons, lay-offs must be based on seniority.