The
negotiations over Louisiana’s new teacher evaluation system give a pretty accurate picture of the current tactical differences between the NEA and AFT, the nation’s two largest teachers unions:
The end product is the result of considerable negotiations among the Jindal administration, Hoffman, Nevers and the Louisiana Federation of Teachers. LFT President Steve Monaghan never withdrew his opposition of the bill, saying “value-added” methodology is still too new to codify. But he helped craft a final version with considerably more protections for teachers than the
From this morning’s
Washington Post we learn that:
The District [of Columbia Public Schools] will spend a projected $283 million this year on tuition and transportation for nearly 2,700 disabled students in private schools — in the Washington region and in residential facilities as far away as Georgia and Colorado.
