There is so much I could say about this… and I’ll try to write more about it soon. In the meanwhile, here are links to various news articles, analyses, responses and perspectives on the ruling and its larger meanings/implications… to which I will continue to add…

• The basic story:
  • AFT Press release (6/10/14): www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2014/061014b.cfm
  • LA Times (6/11/14): www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-teacher-lawsuit-20140611-story.html
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• CFT and AFT on the issue:
  • www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2014/061014b.cfm
  • www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2014/061514vergara.cfm
  • Weingarten on the closing arguments (3/27): www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2014/032714.cfm
• Randi Weingarten (AFT Pres.) on the issue:
  • “Moving from test and punish to support and improve (6/16/14):” www.huffingtonpost.com/randi-weingarten/moving-from-test-and-puni_b_5496293.html (also at www.aft.org/newspubs/press/nytimes/column061514.cfm)
  • MSNBC: Randi Weingarten and co-counsel Marcellus McRae discuss the ruling (6/15): www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/taking-on-teachers-by-targeting-tenure-281603139985
  • http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-weingarten-duncan-20140613-story.html
• Various Analyses, Opinion Pieces and Ongoing Coverage:
  • /vergara_v_california_civil_rights_organizations_say_decision_threatens_children.html
  • LA Times Opinion (6/10): www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schneider-vergara-teachers-20140610-story.html
  • LA Times story (6/11): www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-teacher-decision-lawsuit-20140612-story.html
  • “A tale of two Vergaras” by Adam Bessie (6/11): adambessie.com/2014/06/11/a-tale-of-two-vergaras-of-stardom-and-the-end-of-teacher-tenure/
  • Another LA Times opinion (6/11): www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-why-that-ruling-20140611-column.html
  • From The American Prospect (6/12): prospect.org/article/why-california-tenure-decision-wrong-and-will-hurt-disadvantaged-students
  • “What Due Process Means to Me” By Santa Cruz’s own Casey Carlson (6/17): www.classroomvoices.org/?p=462
  • Opinion: In defense of teacher tenure (WSJ, 6/18): online.wsj.com/articles/pedro-noguera-in-defense-of-teacher-tenure-1403134951
  • From Atlanta, GA, a piece about Vergara that relates it to the broader issue of VAM (value-added measures) (6/18): vamboozled.com/vergara-v-california-concerns-beyond-teachers/
  • A piece at salon.com, relating Vergara decision to Michelle Rhee (6/19): www.salon.com/2014/06/19/this_is_a_b_student%E2%80%99s_opinion_why_the_education_reformers_latest_victory_is_built_on_sand/
  • A more general critique of the education “reform” movement in U.S. (6/19): www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/education-reform-a-nation_b_5511589.html
  • Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO Pres.) on Vergara decision: “Stripping teachers protections doesn’t help children” (6/20/14): http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/06
  • “Are the top .1% buying their version of education reform?” (6/23): www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/23/vergara-vs-california-are-the-top-0-1-buying-their-version-of-education-reform/
  • “Scapegoating California Teachers” (6/25): www.ocregister.com/articles/teachers-627127-california-job.html
  • Huff Post (6/28): www.huffingtonpost.com/celinda-lake/missing-the-full-picture-_b_5538415.html
  • Diane Ravitch reflects on a teacher (6/29): dianeravitch.net/2014/06/29/is-ms-mclaughlin-grossly-ineffective-or-teacher-of-the-year/
  • The expansion of the Vergara suit to other states commences: “Lawsuit Challenges New York’s Teacher Tenure Laws” (7/3): www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/nyregion/lawsuit-contests-new-yorks-teacher-tenure-laws.html
  • “The VergarGuments are Coming to New York State!” (7/4): www.schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/the-vergarguments-are-coming-to-new-york-state/