About Students Matter

Students Matter is a national non-profit organization dedicated to sponsoring impact litigation to promote access to quality public education.

We believe in the power of a good teacher. Research shows that quality teachers make the difference—not only in students’ academic performance but also in lifetime achievement. Having equal access to quality education means having equal access to quality teachers.

Yet, current laws force administrators to knowingly place grossly ineffective teachers in front of students each year. An ineffective teacher in any classroom creates an arbitrary, unjustifiable and unconstitutional inequality among students that we cannot allow to exist.

Vergara v. California, the first case sponsored by Students Matter, seeks to strike down the outdated and harmful state laws keeping ineffective teachers in schools, repelling great teachers from the profession and jeopardizing the future of our students.

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