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LA teachers react to Vergara v. California ruling
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Jun 11, 2014
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LA teachers react to Vergara v. California ruling
A judge ruled Tuesday that California's job protections for teachers violate students' right to an education. Teachers say they're scapegoats for the system's many failures.
File: A student on his way to school walks past a Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school, in Los Angeles, California on Feb. 13, 2009.
File: A student on his way to school walks past a Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school, in Los Angeles, California on Feb. 13, 2009.
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A judge ruled Tuesday that California's job protections for teachers violate students' right to an education. Teachers say they're scapegoats for the system's many failures.

Discussion is still heated over yesterday's ruling by an L.A. Superior Court judge that California's teacher job protections are unconstitutional. Politicians, education reformers, and advocates from all over the country say it's either the worst thing to happen to kids - or the best.

The ruling is under appeal, but teachers are talking about what it could one day mean for them. KPCC's Annie Gilbertson reports.