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Case Against Teacher Tenure Begins With Emphasis on Impact on Students

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 1/16/15

Six months after parents filed a lawsuit seeking to rewrite New York’s tenure laws, dozens of people filled a Staten Island courtroom Jan. 14 to hear the first oral arguments in a case seeking to rewrite due-process rules for Teachers.

Staten Island State Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo, who is expected to rule on whether his court has the authority to hear a challenge to a set of laws, grilled seven lawyers in a hearing packed with more than 10 named plaintiffs, Teachers’-union officials and reporters.

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