The recent anti-tenure decision by a California Superior Court judge shocked many teachers and their union leaders across the country. The court ruled that teacher job protections in that state, such as tenure, are unconstitutional because they impede students’ rights to a good education. But education reformers and many business leaders and politicians couldn’t be […]
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Vargas calls for culture change in city schools
The State Education Department’s intervention at East High School is grabbing all the headlines, but Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says turning around that failing school is not his biggest challenge (a reform plan is due by the end of the month). Changing the district’s inflexible culture is the boulder in the road to success, he […]






