Students Matter, the deep-pocketed advocacy group that bankrolled the Vergara lawsuit that led to California’s tenure laws being struck down, is giving money and resources to a challenge seeking to do the same in New York, the group announced Aug. 6.
Attorneys have already amended the complaint in Davids v. New York, brought last month by the New York City Parents Union in State Supreme Court in Staten Island on behalf of 11 public-school students, to “more closely track the legal theories that were entirely successful in the Vergara litigation,” Randy Mastro, one of the lead attorneys, told reporters in a conference call.
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