In a short one-pager, the New Jersey Supreme Court just ended the litigation war on teachers tenure in the state. By my count, this marks at least the fourth major loss for those using the courts to pursue their anti-teacher tenure agenda. And they have still yet to win a single case before a high court. What started as a big splash in California in Vergara–and rippled into places like Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey–has turned into a frivolous theory that is now sinking like a rock to the bottom of the ocean, likely to never be seen again. As I pointed out more than three years ago in The Constitutional Challenge to Teacher Tenure, the evidence simply did not support their claims.
Here's the Education Law Center's take on the New Jersey decision: