California Teacher Tenure Is Left Intact by State’s High Court

By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News

California’s lifetime job security for public school teachers was left intact by the state’s highest court.

The court decided Monday not to weigh in on an appeals court ruling in April that found the state’s tenure system doesn’t violate students’ right to an education under the California constitution. The appeals court reversed a 2014 ruling by a Los Angeles judge who found the state’s tenure laws left low-income and minority students disproportionately stuck with “grossly” ineffective teachers and breached their fundamental right to equality in education.

The lawsuit was brought against California by a group ...