SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Two potential ballot proposals in California are taking aim at teachers union job protections that enable abusive and ineffective educators to remain in the classroom.

Matt David, a high-profile political consultant, filed language Monday for a proposed California ballot initiative in 2014 that would erase teacher seniority as a consideration for teacher layoffs, and instead require staff reductions based on performance and student test scores, the Sacramento Bee reports.

David is a consultant for StudentsFirst, the education reform group headed by former Washington D.C. School Chancellor Michelle Rhee. StudentsFirst has not yet formally endorsed David’s proposal, the news site reports.

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“I would hope to get their support on this, assuming the language isn’t changed (by the attorney general),” David told the Bee. “But they haven’t taken a position yet, and I’ve advised other groups not to take a position until we get the language finalized.”

David’s proposal is the second in recent months targeted at union protections for teachers.

In October, Bill Lucia, CEO of the nonprofit EdVoice, filed petition language to put a proposal on California’s Nov. 2014 ballot to streamline the process for firing abusive educators. The move comes after similar measures in the state legislature failed to garner enough support from lawmakers.

“As we’ve witnessed over the last two or three legislative cycles, the Legislature has cotton caught up in trying to make the issue of improving the law contingent on treating everyone the same,” Lucia told the Bee.

The EdVoice proposal draws a “bright line about the type of more egregious version of misconduct,” he said.

“The proposed measure focuses on the worst offenders, setting up a compressed hearing process for teachers accused of severe offenses that include child molestation, child abuse and offering drugs to students,” the Bee reports.

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There’s no doubt both reforms are necessary, as evidenced by the ever-growing list of California educators who have abused students or their positions in recent years. The more egregious cases of educators sexually abusing students prompted some lawmakers to attempt to address the problem in both of the last two legislative sessions, but union lobbying ultimately extinguished their efforts.

These proposals would allow California voters to impose change without the permission of the self-serving unions.

They’ll also weaken the teachers unions’ significant political clout.

“I think the people that may be trying to advance these types of initiatives also see a political opportunity: to put the teachers union on the wrong side of voters,” GOP strategist Rob Stutzman told ABC.

Stutzman also said the ballot proposals would require the state’s teachers unions to spend money to try to defeat them, so less money will be available to donate to Democratic candidates for various offices.

“This would be, if this went to the ballot, tens of millions if not over $100 million spent by the teachers’ union to try to stop it,” he told ABC.