Shawnee County District Court rejects union's effort to win back teacher tenure protection
A district court has dismissed a legal challenge by the state’s main teachers union against the path lawmakers took last year to unravel teacher job protections.
The Legislature last spring ended state-mandated teacher due process rights by inserting provisions to that end into H.B. 2506, a bill that appropriated funding for K-12 schools.
The Kansas National Education Association sued in August, arguing that rules for dismissing teachers are unrelated to school funding, and the legislation was therefore unconstitutional because it folded permanent policy into an appropriations bill.
The court said provisions not related to appropriations must be struck from appropriations bills, but this doesn’t apply to all bills that contain any appropriations provisions.
http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-09/shawnee-county-district-court-rejects-unions-effort-win-back-teacher-tenure