LAURENCE TRIBE: Students Before Teachers: Why progressives should defend ‘Vergara v. California’ ruling.

My support for curtailing teacher tenure and last-in, first-out layoff rules when they put the needs of adults before children is not a departure from my progressive roots. Rather, it is a natural and common-sense outgrowth. . . .

The superior court’s decision in Vergara does not strike down due process rights, collective bargaining rights or tenure for public school educators. It only invalidates burdensome rules that give tenure a bad name, as though job security were the primary goal of the education system.

Well, job security is a primary goal of the education establishment, and maintaining a voter-farm for Democrats is more important to the “progressives” that Tribe describes than educating children is. But nice to see him standing up on this.