News, Etc.

The Clark County School District is about to pick another "winner" to replace retiring superintendent Walt Rulffes.

At the school board meeting where the three finalists were announced, one parent activist got arrested for protesting the choices. Since the source is from a paper I no longer will link to, readers will just have to find the article on their own.
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I don't think I linked this article from a couple of months ago explaining in very clear English what public school "tenure" is, which is only the dubious right of "due process" for teachers and is more often than not a big, rigged affair in favor of school districts. The vast majority of "undesirable" teachers don't even go through these rigged hearings; instead, they take settlements in lieu of terminations or "dismissals" believing somehow this will help them in getting future jobs when in fact the ONLY reason districts settle is to save on legal costs and unemployment insurance. Many other targeted teachers quit or take early retirement in order to get away from an abusive situation with a principal. Principals, on the other hand, are virtually impossible to fire.

Note the statistics of a 3-to-1 or 75 percent of "decisions" favoring the school districts. Given how flagrantly school districts can fuck up administrative law with the knowledge few teachers can appeal the rigged affairs because of the extreme expense of hiring and paying for an attorney up front to appeal through the various courts of appeals, it's a wonder the stats aren't 99-1 in favor of the districts.

What is really needed is administrative law that actually sticks, with district administrators being held legally and criminally libel if they commit perjury, bribe or tamper with witnesses, etc.