Class Struggle - Bloomberg ties test scores to teacher tenure:
"Here's an item from my colleague Nick Anderson on the national education beat.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who oversees city schools, said Wednesday morning in Washington that he has directed the nation's largest school system to ensure that principals use student test scores to evaluate beginning teachers who are up for tenure.
'It is an aggressive policy,' Bloomberg, an independent who this year ran as a Republican for re-election, said in an appearance at the Democrat-leaning Center for American Progress. 'But our obligation is to take care of our kids.'"
"Here's an item from my colleague Nick Anderson on the national education beat.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who oversees city schools, said Wednesday morning in Washington that he has directed the nation's largest school system to ensure that principals use student test scores to evaluate beginning teachers who are up for tenure.
'It is an aggressive policy,' Bloomberg, an independent who this year ran as a Republican for re-election, said in an appearance at the Democrat-leaning Center for American Progress. 'But our obligation is to take care of our kids.'"
