Perspective
Feb. 13, 2014
Scapegoating our teachers won't fix our public schools
The suit challenging teacher tenure laws disregards the beneficial purposes of those laws and ignores the full context of problems confronting our public schools. By Emma Leheny
Recently, media stories on public education have perpetuated what education historian Diane Ravitch describes as one of the myths underlying the corporate education agenda: that public schools are hopelessly failing and that teachers are to blame. This same myth underlies the case of Vergara v. California, 484642 (filed May 14, 2012), which is currently being tried in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
David Welch, a wealthy Silic...
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