NEW YORK – Education reform advocates are bringing out the big guns in the wake of the recent landmark court decision in Vergara v. California, which struck down the state’s teacher tenure law and other job protections.

Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown told Politico she’s spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months” to organize a massive wave of lawsuits to challenge teacher tenure and seniority laws in New York and other states after a judge ruled this month that California’s laws deprived students of their constitutional right to a quality education.

In the California decision, the judge agreed with eight students who argued, with the help of the reform group Students Matter, that state laws shielded incompetent teachers from termination, and many subpar educators are disproportionately assigned to schools serving low-income minority students.

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The state’s teachers unions worked with California to defend the state’s unfair law, and have said they will appeal the ruling.

The case reportedly cost the plaintiffs’ legal team several million dollars, but Brown will reportedly rely on the free legal services of attorney Jay Lefkowitz, former deputy assistant for domestic policy to President George W. Bush.

Lefkowitz has successfully defended Wisconsin’s voucher program before the U.S. Supreme Court, won a lawsuit on behalf of the for-profit charter school company K12 Inc. brought by the Chicago Teachers Union, and helped to enact a “parent trigger” law in California that allows parents to force education reforms, Politico reports.

Brown “intends to start with a lawsuit in New York, to be filed within the next few weeks, and follow up with similar cases around the country,” according to the news site.

The lawsuit, however, is only one piece of a growing national movement to erode teacher tenure, seniority and job protections teachers unions have vigorously defended at the expense of students.

Along with Brown’s legal campaign, two former aides to President Barack Obama are also expected to launch a public relations war against the nation’s teachers union and the job protections designed to keep their members employed.

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The Incite Agency, led by former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, who recently echoed statements by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and other Democrats that “the best way we can ensure that every child has access to a quality education is to provide strong teachers in every classroom,” Politico reports.

“The involvement of such high-profile Obama alumni highlights the sharp schism within the Democratic Party over education reform,” according to the news site. “Teachers unions have long counted on Democrats as their most loyal allies. But in the past decade, more and more big-name Democrats have split with the unions to support charter schools, tenure reform and accountability measures that hold teachers responsible for raising students’ scores on standardized tests.”

President Obama, who was twice elected with the support of the nation’s teachers unions, has a long history of double-crossing his political benefactors. Almost immediately upon being elected president, Obama and Duncan pressured states to adopt reforms despised by teachers unions as part of a competitive Race to the Top grant program that awarded billions to schools that adopted the changes.

More recently, Duncan came under fire from the national teachers unions for his comments applauding the Vergara ruling.

The coming wave of lawsuits, and the national public relations campaign against teacher tenure, will undoubtedly put a drain on the teachers unions’ resources heading into the election season, and likely will continue into the 2016 presidential election.

Which raises a very interesting question: Is this the beginning of the end of teachers unions in public education?