Last week, an Appeals Court in California voted to throw out a ruling made by a lower court that threatened job protections and tenure for teachers in the California public school system. Those who supported the lower court's ruling believed that it should be made easier to fire teachers with poor performance despite their tenure. The nine students who were plaintiffs in this case plan to appeal this ruling. The court's decision was based on the fact that the plaintiffs could not prove that they were more adversely affected by ineffective teachers protected by these firing procedures than any other students.
See "In a Win for Unions, Appeals Court Reverses Ruling That Threw out Teacher Tenure in California", Howard Blume, Joy Resmovits and Sonali Kohli, The Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2016