About 7,500 teachers who were subject to mass termination after Hurricane Katrina sued because of lack of due process but the Supreme Court rejected their appeal.
Their lawyer says he is not giving up.
“Despite Monday’s ruling, the plaintiffs aren’t giving up. Willie Zanders, their attorney, said he will turn to the executive branch and Congress to investigate the possible misuse of $500 million in post-Katrina grants to the schools. At the time, Louisiana Education Superintendent Cecil Picard based his request on the need to pay school staff, Zanders said. But trial Judge Ethel Simms Julien of Orleans Parish Civil District Court said in her decision that the state “diverted these funds to the RSD.”
In the best-case scenario, Zanders said, Congress would require Louisiana to repay the money to the federal government then pass legislation directing the money to the laid-off school employees.
“You don’t quit after 10 years. If you believe in something, you fight. Justice has no time deadline — or we’d still be in slavery,” Zanders said.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What do you make of this: http://www.thepeoplellc.com/STANDARDS.html
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Not much. A whole lot of cherry picking and distorting the ideas of Dewey and Counts.
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I’m not sure what they are asking for.
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We are asking for our salaries that were denied us. We were fired after Katrina and when they reopened schools in New Orleans, we were not called back or given hiring preference. The state department of education used the opportunity to allow charter school proliferation and hiring of TFA pretend teachers.
Arne Duncan said Katrina was the best thing to happen to education in New Orleans. Tell that to the many people who lost love ones, homes, and jobs.
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Yes. I agree. But the link above I was trying to understand.
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Banksters face no consequences for fraud and malfeasance, their contracts are sacrosanct. Working middle class people like teachers get prison sentences for cheating on a bubble tests and their contractual rights are easily abrogated. That is just upside down. The rich and powerful should face the strictest accountability and less powerful should have their rights zealously protected.
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Is this a contract issue Tult, or not? Seems like the Courts would have sided with the teachers if the terms of their contracts weren’t honored by the districts.
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You would think so, but not here in Louisiana.
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Your faith in the people who decided Citizens United is touching. Childishly naive, but touching.
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Huge injustice – keep fighting !
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