Local Teachers' Union President Calls "Bullshit" On The HISD Superintendent, The New York Times And The Washington Post - Houston News - Hair Balls

Local Teachers' Union President Calls "Bullshit" On The HISD Superintendent, The New York Times And The Washington Post - Houston News - Hair Balls

 Caught on her cell phone today, Gayle Fallon, president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, said that many people are distorting what Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a Tuesdayeight-page speech about overhauling teacher evaluations.

The speech was reported in the New York Times and the Washington Post today and both accounts said that Weingarten, in her call for an overhaul of teacher evaluations, supports using student test scores as one way to assess teachers. Which would seem to put Fallon at odds with the president of her parent organization.

This week, Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier proposed using a teacher's continued low student test scores as another reason for dismissal. The Houston school board is slated to vote on the proposal at its Thursday meeting and it looks