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California - '..the quality of an education..'

Posted by ProjectC 
'..the quality of an education is as important as mere access to schools or sufficient funding.'

<blockquote>'Further, Judge Treu said, the least effective teachers are disproportionately assigned to schools filled with low-income and minority students. The situation violates those students’ constitutional right to an equal education, he determined. It is believed to be the first legal opinion to assert that the quality of an education is as important as mere access to schools or sufficient funding.

He also had harsh words for the layoff system that protects veteran teachers without regard to any evaluation. “The logic of this position is unfathomable and therefore constitutionally unsupportable,” he wrote.

- California Judge Rules Tenure Laws Violate Student Rights to an Education, June 11, 2014</blockquote>


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<blockquote>(Individual Learning) - 'You determine your own pace. And you don’t go to the next level until you’ve mastered the previous one.'

Learning - Spontaneous, Complexity, Electricity - The Unique Individual</blockquote>